How Occupied presents factual information wrapped in poo to discredit the factual information Controlled opposition Stew Peters and Jeff Berwick are “chumping” their audiences again, this time with a documentary on the Zionist occupation of the U.S. “government,” which is a real thing, while completely discrediting the information by wrapping it in poo. It is the same formula that Stew used to discredit factual information about the deaths caused by the Covid “vaccines” in his “documentary” Died Suddenly, whose expose The Died Suddenly Documentary – Understanding the Scam & Fact Check, is one of the top 10 most popular articles on this substack. Here is your guide to understanding what is “true vs. poo” in Occupied and how the inter-generational organized crime system controls the opposition by leading it themselves. Controlled Opposition voice Jeff Berwick features prominently in the documentary and Stew Peters will be attending Anarchapulco which we will cover in this article as well. If you haven’t yet seen the documentary and feel compelled to see it, then here is a link to watch for free so you don’t have to give these grifters a nickelFirst, the documentary, like rat poison, is overwhelmingly good food… otherwise, the rats wouldn’t consume it. It is bringing the uncomfortable truth of how a foreign interest has seized the “government” of the US BUT doing it in a way that will discredit the information with liberals, women, non-Christians and intellectuals and have your friends think you are an anti-semite and Nazi for mentioning it. I found myself agreeing with 99% of the first 65% of the film. Here is a fact check and breakdown of what is correct before we get into the scam and the grift. What the Film Got RightThe Israeli Genocide of the Palestinians – Yes! The “Government” of Israel is waging a complete and undeniable Genocide against the Palestinian people, and a significant portion of the Israeli people, the US State Department, the Executive Branch, DoD, the American arms industry, and monopoly media propagandists in controlled opposition media operations are absolutely complicit in their participation, collaboation or silence!Israel’s Role in the False Flag Attacks of September 11th, 2001 – The Israeli intelligence service and pro-Zionist American citizens and dual-citizenship Israelis were definitely participants in the false flag attacks of 9-11, and the film does an excellent job of putting together the pieces. We stack up even more evidence in our uncensorable flash drive of freedom, The Liberator, and make it available for free in This Dropbox. Trump has actually received over $100,000,000 from Zionist Interests, with Miriam Adelson’s donation totaling $100,000,000 alone in 2024The Organized Crime “Government” of Israel is Bribing and Installing US Politicians into the Organized Crime US “Government” Who Have Transferred $100 Billion to Israel – True! The organization Track AIPAC documents one single pro-Zionist organization, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, funneling hundreds of millions of dollars each election cycle to elect hundreds of pro-Israel politicians who then vote for billions of dollars of “aid” sent to Israel each year. The Dangerous Scams and Grifts of OccupiedSo, with all this good information… what is the scam? What is the grift? The film appears to be designed to blunt legitimate criticism and exposition of the crimes of the Israeli and US Government by wrapping those crimes in poo and using subtle techniques to discredit the information with liberals, intellectuals, women and non-Christians. The film “steals the oxygen” of other more accurate expositions, positions controlled opposition MainStream Alternative Media(MAM) operations like Stew Peters and Jeff Berwick as leaders of the opposition while discrediting their followers who promote the film or ideas presented in the film like “Hitler was Good” and “It is the Jews” (vs. Inter-generational organized crime centered around banking and central banking some of whom are Jewish.) The Specifics of the Poo and ScamDeclaration of the US as a Christian Country – The first words of the film are a declaration that “As Christians in a Christian country, we have the right to be at minimum agnostic about the leadership being all Jewish” Boom! The filmmakers just offended 30% of the potential audience who are not Christian or are irreligious right out of the gate in a way that won’t be noticed by the majority of Christian viewers. The Ridiculousness of (Some) of the “Experts” Being Presented – If you were trying to make a serious exposition about inter-generational organized crime’s control of the “government” and media, would you have Bozo the Clown and Bernie Madoff as your experts? While I don’t know the backgrounds of many of the featured experts, here are three who I am familiar with: Dan Bilzerian is currently being sued for, among other things, trying to throw a porn “actress” off a roof during a photo shoot for Hustler Magazine, where he missed, and she broke her foot… AND kicking another woman in the face at a nightclub. Dan Bilzerian – While Dan Bilzerian is entertaining, he is a clown, proven liar, misogynist, and fraudster whose legal issues include wasting $50 million in investor money through extravagant and fraudulent spending while running IGNITE and unpaid rent at multiple properties. Suppose the opening comment offended 30% of the potential audience. You can be sure that a similar number of intelligent women familiar with his objectification of women and background were scratching their heads and discounting much of the message the same as if it was being delivered by an actual clown in pancake makeup and a red rubber nose. Jeff Berwick – A serial con artist who we believe is being used by the intelligence agencies to “steer and smear” the voluntaryist and peaceful anarchist movement through the Anarchapulco conference. Check out our multi-part investigation of Berwick starting with the summary article: Chumped: The Unfortunate Truth About Anarchapulco and HBO’s Series: The Anarchists, which details multiple scams where Berwick has been accused of defrauding investors in the Galts Gulch Chile scheme, selling foreign passports that were never delivered or refunded, and promoting a $700MM Ponzi scheme called Bitclub in addition to other crypto scams and pump and dumps at his Anarchapulco conference. In addition to this film, his latest scam is selling a $10,000 medical device that he claims delivers “God Energy” from what appears to be a plastic toolbox, some wires and light bulbs. Stew Peters – Similar to Berwick, Stew Peters is another disreputable figure given a well-financed media operation. Where Berwick attempts to “Smear and Steer” voluntaryists and political anarchists, Peters does the exact same thing with MAGA conservatives. Here is an excerpt on Stew from our investigation into his last scam documentary: The Died Suddenly Documentary – Understanding the Scam & Fact Checka. “Government” is Legitimate – This is a critique from the voluntaryist perspective that “Government” has been the Biggest Scam in History… It is the indoctrinated worldview that keeps everyone trapped in the easily rigged poker game of elections and voting… Stew is 100% on “Team Government” I.E. covering the “news” from the standpoint that the “government” is legitimate, desirable and necessary and everyone needs to “vote harder” for the red team and everything will be fine.b. Statism – Statism is the secret pseudo-religion that the “government” slips to kids in their mandatory “government” schools, scouting programs and military/police training. From the little American flag pin on his lapel to posing for promotional photos in front of giant American flags, Stew has bought into (and is selling!) the scam of statism to the patriot and conservative faithful. It is a way of leading the indoctrinated around by the nose and he is working it!c. Fake left right paradigm – Because Stew is openly Republican the important message of Died Suddenly (and Occupied!) will be discounted by a large section of the population trapped in the fake left-right paradigm… by design…d. Well-funded media operation – Coming out of Red Voice Media, another well-funded media operation keeping their viewers in the fake left-right paradigm to spinning off his own Stew Peters Network with a half-dozen off-shoot shows. With expensive sets, producers, writers, technical sophistication, teleprompters, and social media it smells heavily of organized crime government’s effort to dominate the airwaves with slick, “government is legitimate” media being steered from the top.e. Watch the Water, Stew’s previous documentary effort – Stew was involved in producing and heavily pushing a ridiculous theory that there was snake venom in the Covid vaccine and the water supply. Similar to Jeff Berwick pushing Flat Earth and the Shemitah, the goal is to get baby-truthers or gullible members of the liberty movement to pass along obvious falsehoods to shoot their credibility with their friends and family. “Oh, Bob… He believes they are putting snake venom in the water supply and 9-11 was an inside job…” I.E. if the organized crime media operation can get someone to latch onto and promote a ridicules theory like snake venom or the Shemitah then it will tend to tar by association other truthful information that person may be promoting about 9-11 or Covid “vaccines” deaths and adverse events.It was “The Jews” (vs. Inter-generational organized crime centered around banking and central banking some of whom are Jewish) – This was the most dangerous and scummy scam of the whole package: Repeatedly blaming “The Jews” for the actions of a specific identifiable group that makes up less than 1% of the Jewish population and may not even really be Jewish (although they are hiding within, tricking, and using specific aspects of the Jewish community and their engineered and created “State of Israel” as a base of operations). If this were a serious exposition of the power system that is robbing the US and Israeli populations, it would best be described as inter-generational organized crime centered around banking and central banking that is using fractional reserve banking and “government” to rob and control populations. Casting blame on the entire Jewish population of the world is designed to offend every person of goodwill with Jewish friends and relatives who understand for a fact that the vast, overwhelming number of Jews don’t have anything to do with banking, central banking, media, electronic spying/eavesdropping(Talpiot Program) or cultural debasement(pornography). Yes, in the United States and other Western countries, a small percentage of the Jewish population are Jewish supremacists and Talmudic Jews, very similar to the way a small percentage of the population are white supremacists or a small percentage of the Christian population are Amish. According to a survey conducted in 2020 by Pew Research, about 10% of American Jews who only make up 2% of the population of the US as a whole, are Orthodox Jews, which is the sect of Judaism associated with the Talmud, about 17% are conservative where an inestimable percentage would read or follow the Talmud, the overwhelming majority of US Jews are Reform (37%) and/or unaffiliated(30%) where the overwhelming majority of either of those groups do not read or support the Talmud or Jewish supremacist thought. Yes, many US Jews are being tricked into political Zionism, the same way American Christians are tricked into Statism and blindly following the US “government.”

Episode 3 – Etienne de la Boetie2 Addresses Liberty on the Rocks – Sedona – The Voluntaryism ConferenceIn his speech: How the Free Market Provides Public Goods for Free without the Waste, Fraud, Abuse and Extortion of Monopoly “Government,” Art of Liberty Foundation founder Etienne de la Boetie2 explores how a free market can efficiently provide the services typically handled by the government, but without the downsides of waste, fraud, abuse, and extortion. Highlighting the principles of voluntaryism, Etienne explains how spontaneous order, competition, and the invisible hand of the market allow for innovation, cost reduction, and quality improvement in goods and services. He offers examples, from private companies offering security, fire protection, and air traffic control to community-driven efforts like mutual aid societies and grassroots environmental cleanup projects. Etienne argues that REAL freedom, unencumbered by coercive state systems, leads to economic and social benefits, enabling people to thrive through voluntary cooperation. He concludes by sharing practical tips on supporting local economies, engaging in counter-economics, and preparing for economic uncertainty, all while promoting his upcoming book: Voluntaryism – How the Only “ISM” Fair For Everyone Leads to Harmony, Prosperity and Good Karma for All! – Available for Pre-Order at Voluntaryism-Book.orgFull Transcript & SlidesMy name is Etienne De La Boetie2, and I’m the founder of the Art of Liberty Foundation.And here at Liberty on the Rocks – Sedona – The Voluntarism Conference, what we’re really out to kind of explain today is how the free market is able to deliver all of the legitimate services that government does without the waste, fraud, abuse, and extortion.And so the title of my talk today is how the free market mechanisms deliver public goods for free without the waste, fraud, abuse, and extortion of the state.Some of these we’ve already touched on briefly, but I’m just going to go down a short list of the basics of free market economics for those who may not be familiar.The first one is spontaneous order, which we’ve already talked about, but it’s really the idea that the world is a self-organizing place that produces spontaneous order. That order emerges out of disorder, and things come together on their own without the need for central hierarchical control, without the need for a ministry of toothbrushes or a ministry of doing things that the government shouldn’t be doing at all.Another of these concepts in economics is called “The Invisible Hand”. The invisible hand, there’s a short quote from Adam Smith: “It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from regard to their own self-interest”.One of the nice things about voluntaryism, or I like to call it REAL freedom. By the way, when I sign books and I write REAL freedom, I use all capital letters, I bold it, I italicize it, and I underline it just to denote that I’m not talking about the fake freedom that is offered in the government school system but REAL freedom, one of the really nice things, one of the magical things, one of the kind of the good news messages that REAL freedom “produces the goods”.REAL freedom enables people to come together peacefully and collaborate over great distances in different countries with different goals. Just because they want to improve their own personal lot in life, they want to have better things for their family and their kids, they are going to provide services to humanity.And that is the dynamic that makes millions of New Yorkers wake up to fresh bagels, or makes milk available in different places that don’t have dairy herds or any of the other luxuries and necessities of life.They’re not being provided because the brewer, the butcher, or the baker loves you. They just love themselves, and they serve humanity by providing these things, and they get compensated through market mechanisms. That doesn’t mean that they get to fleece you, because there’s another concept in economics called “Market Competition” where there are other people that have the freedom to offer the same services and the same products in the marketplace, and this dynamic of market competition will balance, for the most part, will balance this desire to charge the maximum amount you can with the fact that somebody can get it elsewhere for less.That mechanism keeps the price of gas roughly the market rate across different gas stations or the price of French fries roughly the same across other restaurants and fast food places.Now, there’s something called the “Price Mechanism”. The price mechanism in economics is the idea that setting prices in the marketplace provides information to other market participants so that they can adjust their own pricing accordingly and that society can value different production inputs and maximize where those productive inputs need to go based on this price mechanism.Now, one example that comes up a lot is when plywood goes stratospheric in Florida right before the hurricane, everybody gets mad and claim: “they’re price gouging! They’re ripping off the people that need plywood!” But no, what’s happening is the market is sending a price signal to the rest of the states around Florida that: Florida needs plywood! And it needs it quick. And there’s money to be made to get it there! And the people that get the plywood are grateful to have the plywood versus those that didn’t. And that price mechanism sets off a chain reaction that doesn’t require anybody in Washington, D.C., to lift a finger. The market is doing it by itself. And plywood is being rushed to Florida to help save businesses that would otherwise be destroyed.Capital Formation is the idea that entrepreneurs that understand their market and understand their business and understand their little part in the economic food chain are really the best people to be able to invest their capital in understanding that particular business or that particular market segment. Those people who have the expertise are the ones who should invest in green technologies, not bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.Another one that’s one of my favorites is called the Discipline of Constant Dealings. The Discipline of Constant Dealings is the idea that the merchant in the marketplace even though he could cheat, even though the dairy farmer could take a hose and put it into his dairy tank and be making more milk, or the gas station owner could calibrate his pump. He could be ripping you off and only giving you maybe 0.85 part of a gallon instead of the full gallon of gas. But the discipline of constant dealings means that these merchants, for the most part, there are exceptions, of course. Unfortunately, the lack of morality in the government school produces people willing to lie, cheat and steal and do things that I don’t think that to this degree, I don’t think you’d have if it wasn’t for this. But for the most part, no merchant will risk their profitable business by ripping off the customer, getting caught in the marketplace, and having that knowledge go through the rest of society that this guy is cheating.He’s not giving me the full gallon of gas. He’s not giving me the full gallon of milk. And so that’s known as the discipline of constant dealings.Then, there are Innovations and Productivity Improvements that reduce the cost of the luxuries and the necessities of life. And this is one of the biggest things that most people don’t understand.One of my running jokes is I’ll ask people, “Have y’all seen the new $50 bill?” And people go, “No, I didn’t know there’s a new $50 bill.” And I’ll take out a $100.” Then everybody laughs.Why are we losing the purchasing power of our money? It’s almost like somebody’s stealing the value out of our money, isn’t it? That is a crooked monetary system. It’s known as fractional reserve banking. The banks are allowed to create money out of thin air even though it’s inflationary, even though it’s stealing the value out of everybody else’s money, even though it’s good for the banks and bad for the rest of society when absent that monetary system.Innovations and productivity improvements should reduce the cost of the goods and the services that you buy because innovation and productivity improvements are reducing the cost of either manufacturing goods or distributing goods.The company Smart Green Shipping recently partnered with the University of Southampton to test out its 20-meter-tall (65.6-foot-tall) FastRig wing-sailOne of my favorite examples is global shipping. A company makes a giant sail that they put on ocean-going ships. It’s controlled by a computer, and it catches the wind and turns an oil tanker or a cargo ship essentially into a sail-assisted vessel. Pyxis Ocean sailing through the English Channel from Spain to Amsterdam, March 2024 using 123 foot “Wind Wings” to reduce fuel consumption on average 3.3 tons of fuel each day. Somebody thought it up, and now you can install it on a ship that didn’t used to have a sail, to reduce the amount of fuel required on a transatlantic voyage. And then shippers are going to get it there cheaper. So they’re going to offer a discount in the market. And that discount in the market is ultimately going to make it down to the individual consumer and the cost of goods and services that you buy.And that’s the dynamic that we should be having in society. Everything should be getting cheaper, but instead everything is getting more expensive because we’re being robbed by the banks at the top of the food chain as they steal the value out of the money that we earn and save.Now, at the same time that the free market and REAL freedom—remember, REAL freedom—REAL is capitalized, it’s bolded, it’s italicized, and it’s underlined. At the same time that it should be making us wealthier and wealthier, there are a number of other competing dynamics in economics that are making us poorer. William Henry Harrison had a quote: “I believe that all measures of the government are dictated to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.”Maybe it’s economic warfare that’s being waged against us. Maybe the lockdowns behind the COVID weren’t for our own good. Maybe they were waging a kind of economic warfare against independent producers and independent businesses, family restaurants, family hotels, and family coffee shops because they didn’t want people to have independent wealth. They don’t want you to be self-sufficient.It’s easier to game the system because they can invest, they can take this fractional reserve capital, and they can invest in chain restaurants, and chain coffee shops, and chain hotels from behind the scenes, while the government puts all their competition out of business, and they had unlimited banker capital to be able to weather the storm, where the independents and the mom-and-pops, they didn’t have it.And so, some of these other things that make everybody poor:Government-Enforced Monopolies. The post office is an excellent example. When I’ve done mailings in the past, in the place where the postage stamp is, I’ll actually go back and I’ll put $0.10 with a line struck through it, $0.15 with a line struck through it, $0.22, $0.24, and then whatever the current postage is, because the cost of postage is going up, it’s outseeding inflation. It’s outstripping inflation. And guess what? If others could deliver the mail, they would—if there wasn’t a government gun to their head saying, “You can’t deliver the mail.”There should be a poster right here, okay, with the Art of Liberty Foundation logo on it. We unfortunately sent it through the Postal Service.Their next day air thing, I’m dead serious, I swear to you, I swear to you, it was supposed, instead, like my assistant didn’t understand that if it absolutely positively has to get there overnight, you don’t get it to the U.S. Postal Service, but we paid for it to be next day aired here yesterday, and it’s not here, and that’s why there’s nothing there.That monopoly dynamic makes everybody poor, and the government inserts monopolies all over society. While other railroads around the world are beginning to deploy trains that travel FASTER than planes, “government” – owned Amtrak loses so much money that in many years it would be cheaper to close it down and buy every single passenger an economy-class plane ticket! Amtrak is another example of a government monopoly. The FAA, which I’ll get to in a minute, is another example of a government monopoly. All of these are making everybody poorer than they should be.Economic Misallocation is the idea that when the government invests, whether the government is investing in green technologies or the government is investing in subsidizing certain companies at the expense of others, that money would be better allocated by individual entrepreneurs in the marketplace who understand their businesses so that they can reduce the cost of the luxuries and necessities of life. And every time the government invests a dollar, it’s stealing value from an entrepreneur who would have spent it better to produce something of value that society wants.Warfare and weapon systems are probably the best-known example of this. You know, every time a cruise missile rocks an empty valley in Afghanistan or Iraq or Ukraine, somebody just made a quarter of a million dollars, quarter of a million dollars, quarter of a million dollars, quarter of a million dollars. And literally, the value and the wealth of society are being wasted and destroyed through trillions of dollars of unnecessary wars waged on lies and manufactured intelligence.And now we know that’s true. We know that there weren’t destroyers attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin. Even the government admits that a lot of these wars were based on lies.Subsidies – Every time that the government takes money from everyone and invests it in a subsidy or subsidizes—whether it’s an agricultural subsidy, whether it’s an ethanol subsidy, whether it’s you name it—they’re taking money and they’re subsidizing typically inefficient producers in the marketplace at the expense of the efficient producers in the marketplace. And you’re going to end up paying higher costs in addition to the taxes you’re paying.Price and Capital Controls – When the government says, you know, when they say, “Oh, we need to have rent control in New York City to keep apartments inexpensive for the people that want them,” the people that want them cheer and go, “Oh, that’s great,” even though that’s going to destroy the incentive for entrepreneurs that provide housing, low-income housing, and other kinds of housing, to invest in those properties or to build new properties. That’s stealing value from the owners of the properties, and it’s creating unintended consequences that are bad for the average consumer. Javier Milei in Argentina just removed rent control in a big segment of society, and they’ve seen prices drop across the board. Not in every single case, but essentially across the board, removing these price controls leads to better outcomes.Central Planning – Government is famous for central planning. You’re going to see James Corbett take that apart in his presentation: An Announcement from the Ministry of Toothbrushes so that I won’t talk too much about that now. Inflationary Monopoly Money – we’ve already talked about. The fact that the money is losing value destroys the ability of society to save and have investments for new businesses, for your kids to be able to take a year or two off college and pursue whatever they want to pursue.Tariffs and Trade Barriers – Tariffs, government says, “Oh, well, we’re not going to tax you for that. We’re just going to put a tariff on goods coming from across the seas,” as if you’re not going to pay that in higher prices for the goods that you want to buy from across the seas. It’s absolutely ridiculous. They’re taking the money, spending it how they want in Washington, DC, and claiming to offer you a benefit. And they’re benefiting, in many cases, inefficient producers at the expense of more efficient producers. Import-export quotas, bailouts, and subsidies for failing businesses, these are just a few. We mentioned spontaneous order. Voluntaryism, not only does it work and deliver the goods, but it’s around you all the time. It’s already working. You’re already seeing it. You’re already seeing it in the marketplace. I’m using this exploded cell phone, this picture of this exploded cell phone here to make the point that a cell phone isn’t really just made by one company. It’s made by hundreds, if not thousands of different companies around the world doing everything from mining materials in Africa and Australia and other countries for the raw goods and the components, the lithium for the batteries, the glass for the screen, the software that powers the device. There might be thousands of companies involved in creating individual applications. The people that make the wireless transceivers, the people that make the plastic. There’s no central planning involved in this. These are all people who just want to have a better life for themselves and their family. They’re innovating in their own individual niche, and they all come together completely spontaneously. There’s no violence involved. There are no threats. There’s nothing of that nature.And my other favorite example of this is the grocery store. The grocery store is coordinating the activities of millions and millions and millions of people around the world that have no top-down centralized planning at all to ensure that you get avocados in January and strawberries in February in a complex global supply chain that also includes, you know, retailing, merchandising, advertising, making the products look attractive and the packaging look good. And so it really, it really is all around us today. And there’s no reason in the world that these things can’t apply to the goods and the services that government provides to make them better, faster, and cheaper, just like they do for the grocery store, just like they do for cell phones, just like they do for automobiles, just like they do for Hollywood films, just like they do for bookstores, airlines, you name it.Thank you, thank you, thank you.Now, I want to give you some examples of grassroots spontaneous order, where it’s routinely producing what we would commonly think of as public goods. Now, I don’t have it on this slide, but I’m going to tell you. A couple of years ago, I was in a Tough Mudder race with my son there.And one of the guys, we had a team of a group of friends.And one of the guys on the team was a venture capitalist that built bridges. And he told me like, we’re talking about it and everything. And he was telling us the background of how they work. Okay. They go out and they find a place where you’ve got to drive, where there’s a whole bunch of traffic and a whole bunch of people that would have to drive an hour or two hours out of their way to get from point A to point B. And they invest their own money, and they build a bridge, and they figure out, would the customer pay $5, $10, whatever it is, to save themselves an hour to two hours of time in the hassle of getting from pointThe Wayne Six Toll Bridge is a privately owned suspension bridge over the Ohio River on the Golding Street Extension between Newell, West Virginia and East Liverpool, Ohio, United States. It carries two lanes of roadway and a pedestrian path along the west side. The toll is $1 for vehicles and $0.05 for pedestrians.A lot of people believe bridges wouldn’t get built if the government wasn’t doing it. Oh, yes, they would! And not only will they get built, but there’s a profit motive that encourages the venture capitalists that build bridges to go out and find these places before the other venture capitalists build bridges, find them, and they go do it first. And so that’s already going on, and it’s being done for you, for free. The venture capitalist doesn’t care about you, he just wants to make money, but you get to save an hour, two hours of your life in exchange for $5. That in a world where our money wasn’t being stolen, the value of our money would be like, $5, $10, whatever it is. And so that’s going on.Underwriters Laboratories certifies electronic equipment for safety for insurance companies. That’s not a government operation. The Ocean Clean Up Project’s Interceptor is stationed at the mouth of polluting rivers to ensure that plastic never makes it into the ocean in the first place.The Ocean Cleanup Project is removing plastic from the rivers and the oceans. The Non-GMO Project is certifying non-GMO ingredients where the government wouldn’t. So we had a market failure where there’s already an FDA that’s already supposed to be protecting you from things like GMO, but through something called regulatory capture, which is the well-understood economic idea that the agencies in Washington, D.C. are captured by the companies they regulate, and there’s a revolving door of people going from the GMO industry, from Monsanto. Michael Taylor is the textbook example, where there’s a guy going from Monsanto in and out of the FDA every couple of years, sometimes he’s working for Monsanto, sometimes he’s working for the FDA. And so we had a quote-unquote “market failure” (Really “government failure”). And then the market came in and solved the problem and now I don’t buy grains if it doesn’t say the Non-GMO Project! The government supposedly is supposed to be protecting us from that. But instead, we had to have to have a private company step forward.Consumer Reports tests and reviews just about everything. And I’m going to get into the North Maine woods here in a second. But a lot of people don’t know this.A Rural Metro Fire Department There’s already private firefighters. There’s a company called Rural Metro Fire that provides private fire protection, EMS, rescue, and medical vehicle accidents, even wildlife fire protection in rural areas all across the country is provided by a private company. It doesn’t have to be the government. It’s already being done. Detroit Threat Management is Providing Police Services in DetroitThere’s a company in Detroit called Detroit Threat Management that provides cost-effective armed protective services in Detroit where the monopoly police are notoriously inefficient and corrupt. So the government is doing such a poor job, not just in Detroit.Right now, I’m a little nomadic. I’m living in Memphis, Tennessee right now. And I promise you, in every single business, there is private security in every single parking lot, in every single shopping center, in almost every single business. The police department is so inefficient and corrupt that the government has to buy additional security, in addition to what you’re being taxed for—the security that you don’t want. Even though you’re being taxed and robbed for the security that’s not doing such a good job, you’ve got to buy additional security. Why don’t we just all buy the security ourselves and get them like right out of the thing because we’re having to do it anyway? Now, Nav Canada, I’m going to talk about in a bit. Kiva provides crowdsourced loans to entrepreneurs, the same as the Small Business Administration. You can loan as little as $25 to an entrepreneur, when they pay you back you can loan again! Nav Canada… Well, surely we’ve got to have the FAA, or planes would just be dropping out of the sky, and they’d be running into each other. Canada privatized air traffic control in 1996 through a sale to a privately owned NAV Canada. They have 1,900 air traffic controllers, 650 flight service specialists, 700 technologists, software developers, whatever. They’re doing 12 million aircraft movements a year. They’ve got 40,000 customers, pilots, private plane owners, things like that. They’re covering 18 million square kilometers. They’ve got 42 control towers and seven area control sites. We don’t need the government to do anything… even the most complicated, wide-scale things. It’s the second-largest air navigation provider in the world by traffic volume.This is one of my favorites. Well, surely if we didn’t have national parks and state parks, then the developers would just… we would just have everything paved, and it would just be garbage and wasted. There’s a place in Canada called the North Maine Woods. It’s 3.5 million acres of privately protected forest in Maine. It is twice the size of Massachusetts. It is made up of conservation areas where people have donated money to have areas privately protected. It’s mostly the timber companies, there are private landowners, and they’ve put the stewardship of the land into a nonprofit called the North Maine Woods. It’s providing all of the amenities you would expect from a national park or a state park. You can go hiking, you can go camping, you can go four-wheeling, snowmobiling, hunting. It’s got all that at comparable prices.It’s not that volutaryism is some kind of pie-in-the-sky idea. All of this is being done today. Most people just never know it because, as I mentioned in the opening, they don’t want you to know about it. Google and Facebook wouldn’t sell us advertising for this conference because they don’t want you to know that this is going on. Mutual Aid Societies – This is really, really fascinating. Mutual aid societies. In this country, before the government got itself into the cash welfare business—really kind of in the 20s and 30s—there were dozens of individual mutual aid societies that provided many of the exact same benefits as government welfare: unemployment insurance, disability insurance, health insurance. There was a thing called “lodge practice” that has been stamped out by the AMA. The AMA literally did away with lodge practice because it was impacting the amount of money that doctors could make.And so they didn’t like that at all.So they did away with what was known as lodge practice. But these mutual aid societies would all pool their resources, they would hire their own doctors, and they would split the cost of the doctor across everybody in the mutual aid society. And you would go see the Mutual Aid Society doctor and he would be on call for you. Back then, they used to have house calls, and the doctor would come to you, and it was a better quality of medical care because the doctor’s interest was aligned with your interest as a member of the Mutual Aid Society. The doctor was a member of the Mutual Aid Society. And that’s not what we have right now with government run healthcare. And get this, you ready for this? The mutual aid societies competed with each other. They competed with each other to who would provide better benefits for their members because they wanted you part of the Elks. They didn’t want you in the Rotary Club’s Mutual Aid Society. They wanted you to be part of the Elks. And so they’re going to compete on who would offer better benefits.Now, back to the Sedona example.And so to get people here, we advertised in the Red Rock News. I subscribed to their email newsletter to ensure the ads were going out as we expected. And I get a story that Sedona had just opened up eight pickleball courts at a cost of $1.6 million. And I couldn’t believe it. So, I didn’t cherry-pick this. I didn’t go out and find the cheapest pickleball court. I just called the only guy I know who has a privately run pickleball court. And it’s a place in, in Memphis, Tennessee, in a kind of an affluent neighborhood.It’s called Willow Grove Farm Pickleball Paradise.So I call and ask, “Hey, what did you pay to create Pickleball Paradise?” And it is a paradise. It is beautiful. It’s nestled in the woods. They have six outdoor courts. They’re building five climate-controlled indoor courts. He has horses and mules that will just come up to you at the fence and let you pet them. He has dozens of varieties of exotic chickens that roam the ground that look absolutely like a paradise. The cost of constructing his six outdoor courts, including the lighting, the fence, and two bathrooms, was less than $100,000. He is currently building five more indoor courts, four full-size courts and one little mini “singles court.” I don’t play a lot of pickleball, but evidently, there’s a smaller court called a single court. He will pay $325,000 to $350,000 for five more indoor courts. He charges $5 to play all day long. Okay. You can come and go all day for five bucks. If you buy a monthly or yearly plan, it gets even cheaper than that. He’ll let you play for free if you can’t afford it. Chilled bottled water is just a dollar. Okay. So where’s this $1.6 million going? I emailed the head of Sedona Parks and Rec two days ago. And I left a message saying: “Hey, I’m an investigative journalist. I’m trying to figure out where this $1.6 million went.”He has not gotten back to me. [Etienne Note: The head of Parks & Rec did finally get back to me, and I requested and received copies of the bids and budget, and it is filled with outrageous expenditures like $2500 to remove a post AND $800 to test the lights. $102,000 was spent on the demolition of an existing ball field (Which was ridiculous as well), so the final cost for the courts was only $1.5 Millionish. I actually interviewed the city employees involved with the project. They were embarrassingly clueless about the immorality of robbing average people to overspend/waste a million dollars on eight Pickleball courts… Article on the investigation coming soon!]I mentioned that we’re having a conference today, and he has not gotten back to me, but I did some math. The average pickleball paddle is eight ounces. If you had four paddles for each court, all made out of solid gold that would only be $710,000. So, the guy in Memphis built more courts. Eleven courts versus eight, better courts, five indoor courts for less than $500,000. Where is all of this money going in Sedona? The other point that I want to make about this is that the guy who built these courts in Memphis, Tennessee, is providing the exact same service that the government is providing. He’s providing the community pickleball courts, but he’s doing it without a gun. He’s doing it without stealing and robbing and extortion and coercion, and he’s achieving a better result that is cooler, way cooler.Okay, then, what the city of Sedona is providing, I assure you, is not too different from what we can create ourselves. And, you know, I wanted to just have some solutions—just like I like throwing in solutions and everything. What I like to do is find others and everybody that came from afar, I’m so glad that you’re here. I know that a lot of people don’t realize there are so many other people, amazingly cool, amazingly beautiful people that believe the exact same thing, that don’t want to use extortion, aren’t advocating for the use of extortion or violence on their neighbor through the political process, don’t want to vote to rob them, don’t want to participate in rigged elections. There are many, many others. Find them, get organized. There’s power in numbers, and you become part of the safety net.This is a picture of the Porcupine Freedom Festival in New Hampshire, one of the largest and oldest freedom gatherings. There’s a video that I don’t have time to play, but these are two tax collectors that showed up a couple of years ago at the Free State Project’s Porcupine Freedom Festival and tried to collect the meals tax (theft) at the Festival. They were mocked. They were made fun of. They were driven off. And the taxman has never been back to the Porcupine Freedom Festival. And that is really the power of numbers. And so that’s why you got to get organized.I recommend, like, I’m worried about government money. So, I always encourage people to get prepared for a dollar devaluation or collapse. My favorite thing to do is just pay in cash. It saves the local merchant 1.5% to 2.5%. It starves the bank for 1.5% to 2.5%. It allows independent mom-and-pop businesses to pocket the cash versus getting robbed by the government in taxation. And then you and the merchant have more cash on hand in the event of a bank holiday.I encourage diversification into non-dollar-denominated assets like goldbacks, silver, and crypto. I was watching last night, and people were doing transactions in crypto for a variety of goods and services. And somebody was offering silver as well. And so it’s happening all around you.Engage in counter-economics. Regarding counter-economics, maybe Derek Brose is going to talk about this a little bit. But anything that you do that shifts something done in the state’s purview into the private is good for freedom and bad for the tyranny of the state. Private market associations, there are all kinds of different things that allow you to do that.Don’t pay taxes. Work off the books. Shop at the farmer’s market and pay cash. Shop local versus Amazon and the chain stores. Growing your own food is like printing your own money. Use credit unions versus the market banks.The one thing I’ll say is I’ve got all of this coming out in a book that should be released in early November. We’re doing an Indiegogo campaign for that book right now. We’re raising $25,000 to get a low-cost initial print run and a marketing campaign behind the book, and so far in a couple of days, we’ve raised $1,471 $2726 from 29 62 backers, or 5% 10% of our goal.So, if you wanted to participate in that and you’d like to pre-order a copy of that book, it’s at voluntaryism-book.com. We’ve got some great perks for people that can help us get this book into the marketplace.And with that, I will leave you. As I mentioned, I am the founder of the Art of Liberty Foundation. We’re a startup public policy organization. We’re looking at problems and trying to solve socioeconomic issues from a principled, voluntarist standpoint. We’re trying to be a voluntarist think tank and bring the message of many of these speakers, amplify it, and get it out to all corners of the world.That is the end of my talk, and I thank you for your kind attention.About the SpeakerEtienne de la Boetie2 is the founder of the Art of Liberty Foundation, a startup public policy foundation exposing the illegitimacy and criminality of “government” from a principled voluntaryist perspective. 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Larken Rose kicks off Liberty on the Rocks – Sedona – The Voluntaryism Conference by taking down the legitimacy of “government” We are publishing the 1st talk from Liberty on the Rocks – Sedona – the Voluntaryism Conference, with political philosopher Larken Rose setting the stage by DESTROYING the legitimacy of “government” and revealing its immorality and illogical nature. In this thought-provoking episode, political philosopher Larken Rose presents a challenge to the commonly accepted notion of government and authority. Entitled The Illegitimacy of “Government” & Rebooting Humanity, Larken’s talk explores how deeply ingrained beliefs in political authority contribute to societal problems such as war, corruption, and oppression. Through a series of hypothetical scenarios and humor, he questions the legitimacy of authority figures having “moral exemptions” that permit them to act in ways considered wrong for ordinary citizens. Larken delves into the essence of anarchism, defining it as the absence of rulers rather than the chaos often portrayed by monopoly media. He argues for a society where individuals govern themselves, advocating a simple yet radical principle: if an action is wrong for an individual, it is equally wrong to ask others, including government, to do it. This episode is a compelling call for personal responsibility and voluntary cooperation as foundations for a just and peaceful world.New to the Series? Check out the Introduction Here: Do We Really Need “Government”? – What is Voluntaryism? – Introduction – Liberty on the Rocks – Sedona – The Voluntaryism ConferenceFull TranscriptLarken Rose: All righty, who here is to blame for the problems of the world? I mean, in this room. Okay, at least you admit it. Most people in this country and around the world are well aware that humanity has some pretty dang serious problems. Corruption and war and financial problems and crime and violence and all sorts of not-so-fun things. Almost none of those people think that their own belief system is the cause of it, or even contributing in any way. But if we have those problems, and we do, and nobody thinks that their beliefs are part of the problem, some of those people must be wrong. But there seems to be an almost universal assumption that people who mean well and people who are trying to be good and do the right thing and trying to make the world better. Well, they can’t possibly be part of the problem, but they absolutely are. Almost all of them. Now, it’s not because they’re malicious or evil or trying to ruin the world, but it’s because they believe things that were pounded through their heads over and over and over again, manipulated into their thought patterns without even noticing, like Etienne was mentioning, and it vastly influences how they behave and what they think and how they talk and how they act. And very few people bother to question such things or even notice them as beliefs. They just think, oh, I just see reality as it is. And they don’t get how much their perception of reality has absolutely nothing to do with reality. The title of this talk is Rebooting Humanity. Instead of assuming that things should mostly be the way they are with a little bit of reform that politicians love to talk about and tinkering here and there, let’s do a thought experiment here starting from scratch to consider some very fundamental principles and concepts. Now, you can’t really examine society without examining the strange beast that is politics. Political power and legal systems and government. But who isn’t sick of the inane, constant political rhetoric by now? Well, we’re going to keep things very simple and literal here because the most political discussion is a steaming stew of dishonest euphemisms and vague fluff, and emotional noise topped off with a pile of absolute bullcrap.“If elected, I will enact a policy of diverse opportunity and progressive equality by way of growth and compassionate assistance.” Okay. What does that actually literally mean?I’m going to take these people’s money and give it to those people. So those people vote for me.So we’re going to actually be literal today. We’re not going to go into the fluff. We’re going to directly, specifically, and accurately describe reality. And we’re not going to be bickering over which politicians we think are slightly less slimy than the other politicians. We’re going to go back to basics and look at some principles.So here’s the thought experiment. I want you all to imagine that we’re forming our own little town somewhere. It’s just us. Now we’re going to throw in a couple hundred other people because it’s going to be a pretty small town if we don’t. So we’ll just throw in a couple hundred other people that we don’t know. And we’re all gonna be just plunked down in the woods somewhere. We’re being pioneers and building a new little society from scratch.Now, I’m sure we have people with different views, different interests, and even different values to some extent, as well as different skills and knowledge. So we’ll probably find ways to barter and trade, organize and cooperate, work together, and so forth. Now, not everybody is competent, and not everybody is honest, and not everybody is nice. Present company, except I’m sure we’re all nice, but some of those 200 hypothetical people I came up with might be nasty. And I’m not sure we can trust them. The fact that they don’t exist, never mind. So we also might have to figure out how to deal with nasty people along the way.But I don’t want to just babble about what I think our little new society should do because I won’t be in charge of it. I’m not the emperor of this new little colony. I’m just me, and you’re just you. So I will put a bunch of this in the form of questions for you to consider.Let’s start with a few basic suggestions and ideas, and you let me know by a show of hands which ones you favor.Okay, so the first possible suggestion is: There we are in the woods, in the middle of nowhere, with no roads and no any of that. First suggestion, everybody scatter, everybody just run off into the woods in different directions, every man for himself.Okay, who’s in favor of that?Okay, who thinks that idea is pretty stupid?Okay, next possible plan: we all violently attack and rob each other, and whoever ends up alive and with the most stuff wins.Who likes that plan?You’re laughing at my brilliant plans.Who thinks that plan would be immoral and moronic?Yay.Next possible plan: instead of individuals fighting each other, let’s divide into two big groups. Maybe we’ll just split down the aisle here, and then the two groups can try to kill each other and dominate each other.All in favor of that plan?You’re no fun.Okay, how about this plan? Somebody comes up with a central master plan and then forces everyone else to go along with it and violently punishes anybody who disobeys.All in favor?Oh, man. What if you get to be the one who comes up with the master plan and forces it on everybody else? Who here wants to be the one? We got one aspiring tyrant, okay.Okay, now, this last suggestion might sound a little crazy and fringe, but here goes. What if each individual is in charge of himself and each individual gets to decide for himself which projects he wants to be involved in and who he wants to work with and who he wants to trade with and interact with.So, individuals might voluntarily form groups, big or small, to accomplish certain things, but each individual gets to decide for himself which things he’s gonna be a part of.All in favor? Ah, a bunch of extremists!Now, it’s weird because I’ve asked these answers to everyone in the same way. Liberals, conservatives, people who don’t care about politics at all, people from different countries. It’s almost as if freedom and peaceful coexistence is what people want.Well, if pretty much everyone wants that, why don’t we have that?Alright, you crazy kooks with your silly childish desires for peace and voluntary cooperation. I’ll give you a master plan that’ll definitely change your mind. So here is my four-point master plan for our new little colony. It’s genius, and I’m sure you’ll all eagerly and happily agree to it.First, first of my four-point plan, from now on, I’m allowed to do evil stuff. All the stuff that we would all normally recognize as wrong and immoral—fraud, theft, assault, murder, things like that. That’ll still be bad if any of you do it, but you’ll give me permission to do those things, and it won’t even be bad when I do them. So the first part of my plan is I get a blanket exemption from basic morality applying to me.The second part of my plan is that you all have to do whatever I say, and I’ll have enforcers whose job it is to beat up anybody who disobeys me.Now the third point of my plan is very important. I don’t want you obeying me just because you’re scared of my enforcers. I want you scared of them too. I’m gonna need each one of you to really and truly believe that you are morally obligated to obey my every whim and that disobeying isn’t just dangerous, it’s actually wrong—that it’s a sin and makes you a bad person if you don’t obey me.Now, the fourth and final point of my genius plan is that I get to change my mind whenever I want. I make up new commands and demands whenever I feel like it and change the rules whenever I want to. And whenever I do, you all have to accept that morality itself changes.If my rule said you’re allowed to do something yesterday, and I changed it, now you’re not allowed to do it today, that means you’re a good person yesterday if you do it, and then you’re a bad person today if you do it—because my will is morality. It defines right and wrong, because I changed my mind.And in case you were wondering, I can make different rules for different people, and different rules for different places, different rules for different times. I can basically do whatever the hell I want. And if you don’t like it, your only proper and civilized recourse in our new society is to pitifully beg me to change the rules that you don’t like. And if I don’t change them to what you want, and I pretty much never will, well, sucks to be you. You’ll obey, and you’ll like it.All in favor of my four-point plan? Come on, just give me unlimited power over everyone, and I will be your savior.No takers?Now, I trust that everyone watching at home immediately recognized that my proposed plan is laughably stupid and, in fact, downright demented and insane. Hopefully, you also knew that I was kidding. But here is where things might get a little bit uncomfortable for some people because leaving our hypothetical new society and getting back to the real world here, if you vote for any political candidate or party, if you believe in and support any government of any size, of any type—democracy, constitutional republic, monarchy, whatever—then you already have given your blessing to exactly the plan that I just described.Now, that’s not an exaggeration, and it’s not hyperbole. It’s literally true, but I expect exactly no one who wants “government” to actually believe me yet.So again, we’ll keep things simple, literal, and direct and see what the reality of political authority actually is, point by point, like my plan. Now, the first part of my totally bonkers plan was that I should get an exemption from morality and I should be allowed to do bad things, so much so that they’re not even bad if I do them. Still bad if anybody else does them, but come on, that’s certainly not what government is, is it? Well, let’s see.There you are, a mere human being, and you don’t have the right to rob people and beat people up and murder and things like that. Those things are wrong. Now, you do have the moral right to voluntarily organize and cooperate with people and trade with people. In fact, I think most of us would agree that you even have the right to use physical force against other people if that’s necessary to protect an innocent person from an attacker. In other words, it’s bad if you violently attack people, but if you use force to stop an attacker, that can be justified.Yes, I realize this is very basic and obvious, and I’m describing things that most eight-year-olds understand. So let’s bundle all those things that you, as a mere mortal human being, would be morally justified in doing, and we’re gonna call that “good stuff.” It’s okay to do good stuff. Let me know if this deep philosophical explanation is too complex for you. It’s okay to do good stuff.Now, as a mere peasant, you do not have the right to rob your neighbor or violently control his decisions and choices. You can’t, for example, impose and collect a tax from other people on your own. That’s extortion if you do it, and that’s bad. As another example, you don’t get to use threats of violence to tell other people what they can eat or drink or smoke or sell or buy or build or live in, who they can trade with, and so on and so forth forever. That would be violent thuggery if you do it. It’s legislation and regulation if the government does it.Now, here’s the uncomfortable part, even though it’s painfully obvious. If you and me and every other mere mortal on the planet have the right to do good stuff, and some special people like politicians, tax collectors, law enforcers, and other government employees have the right to do some stuff that you and I don’t have the right to do, that means that those people are allowed to do stuff outside of the category of good stuff, also known as bad stuff.So yes, “government,” by its very nature, is the thing that supposedly has societal permission to commit evil. That is the fundamental nature of what government and political power are. When those people do it, it’s fine, legitimate, and necessary. When you do it, it’s bad. Because you see, those people have an exemption from morality. Hmm, that’s just like the first point of my completely bonkers plan.Now, you can bicker that, well, they can’t just do whatever they want. They’re only allowed to do certain evil stuff. Okay, that doesn’t really change the underlying principle and how bonkers it is to think that some people should be allowed to do evil. Whether people like hearing this or not, to believe in government of any size, any type, automatically and necessarily means that believing that people in government have an exemption from basic morality and are allowed to do evil. So much so that it’s not even evil anymore when they do it.The vast majority of people, whether they’ve ever looked at it that way or not, believe exactly that. They believe that some people, those in authority, have an exemption from morality to one degree or another. And that’s absolutely insane and also horribly dangerous and destructive, as several hundred million people murdered by their own governments in the last hundred years kind of demonstrates.Now, I’m going to bundle together the next two points of my bonkers plan: that I get to boss you around and have my enforcers beat you up if you disobey, and two, you can’t just disobey out of fear. You have to feel like I have the right to control you and that you are obligated to obey me.As it happens, that is quite literally what the word “authority” means. Authority does not mean the ability to control somebody by force. Most of us have, if you have a gun, yeah, I can make this person do things, but that’s bad. Authority means the right, the moral right to control people, not just the ability. So if you believe in political authority at all, regardless of type or size, then you have to believe that certain people have the right to do immoral stuff and control people, and that it’s immoral for people to disobey them.I mean, you wouldn’t want to be one of those despicable lawbreakers, would you? That isn’t just dangerous, it’s bad, right? Obeying the law is good, disobeying is bad. How many zillion times have we all heard that?Okay, well, what is… It isn’t just don’t rob people and don’t murder people.Well, law is how the duly elected congressional representatives enact the will of the people by way of the law.No, as I said, we’re not going to do the bullcrap euphemisms and vague rhetoric. What literally is this thing called law?Now, there are laws of physics and stuff. We’re not talking about that. That’s actual physical reality. Law is commands—commands backed by threats of violence. A bunch of politicians did some rituals, put some words on paper, declared it to be law, and then they send violent armed enforcers after anyone who’s caught disobeying. That is the obvious, literal, undeniable reality.But even just phrasing it honestly and literally makes a lot of people uncomfortable. That’s because when the reality of the situation is clearly expressed, everyone can see the obvious evil and insanity of it, which is why they have to talk about all the fluff. And just like you all saw the insanity when that was part of my brilliant plan for our new colony, everybody who hears it described literally goes, “Oh, that’s not what I want.”Why do you keep voting for it?The difference is anybody who hears me suggest it knows that I’m kidding. I hope. But the vast majority of human beings on this planet have been indoctrinated from birth to believe that when the exact same thing is done by way of longstanding, official, traditional political rituals, that it must be legitimate. It must be righteous. It must be sane. It must be necessary. It’s not.Now, the fourth and final point. The fourth and final point of my bonkers plan is that I get to change my mind whenever I want. And when my rules change, morality changes with it. That’s how powerful I am. Even if my commands and demands are arbitrary and constantly changing, and different at different times and in different places and for different people, you are always bad if you disobey me. And you are always deserving of whatever punishment me and my enforcers dish out if you disobey. That was my plan, okay?How does that compare to government?In this country, in the beginning, drinking alcohol was legal. Then alcohol prohibition happened, and it became illegal—against the law. Then later, it became legal again. Therefore, to believe that obeying the law is a moral imperative, you have to believe that morality changes when the politician’s scribbles change. You’re a perfectly fine, upstanding citizen one day, but then—Even though you didn’t change anything about what you were doing—the next day, you’re an immoral, despicable criminal because some new law was passed. Some new substance was outlawed. Some new firearm restriction was enacted. Some new random, obscure regulation change that you didn’t even know about happened relating to your field of work.So you accidentally and unknowingly became a bad person.By doing the same stuff you’ve done for years after some new arbitrary crap was spewed out by some bureaucratic parasite you’ve never heard of. And we’re supposed to believe that this is a legitimate and sane way to view reality? To believe that right and wrong can change based on the whims of corrupt political parasites?So, of course, I trust all of you. Every night, read the Code of Federal Regulations before you go to bed. It’s only a couple hundred thousand pages to make sure you’re being a good, law-abiding citizen. And that’s just at the federal level. There’s still state and local and all sorts of… Make sure you keep up with that, because otherwise you’re a bad person if you accidentally do some random thing that doesn’t match some random rule you didn’t know existed.Also, make sure you keep up to date with all of the laws of every country, every state, every town, every county, every locality you ever pass through, since you also have to believe that morality randomly changes from place to place when you cross invisible, imaginary lines.Sure, you can be a respectable, moral person smoking marijuana here in Arizona. But if you do the exact same thing 100 miles north of here, over that magic line between Arizona and Utah, then you would be a despicable criminal and lawbreaker deserving of the violent assault and caging that will be inflicted upon you if you get caught. You horrible villain.You have to believe this if you believe in political authority. And it’s bonkers.Now, when we were imagining our new little colony in the woods, you all thought that my suggested plan, me as an all-powerful tyrant with the ability to do evil, was a stupid plan. In fact, you kind of chuckled at it, which I was a little offended by. And so would pretty much everyone else on the planet.So why, when those in government do the same thing, do most people accept it and think it’s legitimate and even essential for society?Now, for our little society in the woods, I could modify my plan slightly so I’ll let you choose between two power-happy megalomaniacs. So, you can decide which one of us you prefer, and I’ll pick the other one too and make sure he’s equally power-happy and stuff. You get to choose which one of us will violently rob and dominate you. You’re still gonna be dominated and robbed and extorted and controlled and bossed around and all that fun stuff. But hey, if you get to pick which person abuses and victimizes you, that makes it okay. Right?Again, in the setting of my plan, nobody would accept such lunacy. And yet, most of the world praises democracy as the ultimate height of civilization. As long as the human livestock is allowed to bicker over who violently subjugates and exploits them, well, that’s as good as it gets, right? We choose our abusers so that counts as being free, right? No, it doesn’t. Duh.Now, I must make a brief tangent here into the realm of human psychology, because most people, having been raised to believe in government and political authority, have been taught that good people happily and proudly pay their taxes and obey the law—including thousands of arbitrary random laws we can’t possibly keep track of. They don’t want to have to question their entire view of reality, because that’s uncomfortable. Usually, it’s not very fun. In fact, for the vast majority of people I know who are now voluntarists, myself included, it was an awkward, uncomfortable process to look at my own belief system and go, Do I really believe this?Why would I believe that?That doesn’t make any sense. It took me years to just go: That doesn’t make sense. Because when someone’s deeply indoctrinated into a belief and doesn’t even recognize that it’s a belief, it’s really uncomfortable to actually look at it.So, what some people are going to do when they hear this dangerous extremist rhetoric I’m saying up here, when I’m questioning the need for a violent parasitical ruling class—I mean, legislative representative government—their brains are going to start throwing excuses at it. They’ll try to justify why our system isn’t like what I described and how this is a free country, and the government here represents the people, serves the people, and is just doing the will of the people. And even if it kind of sucks, it’s still the best around, and all sorts of other dogmatic hogwash.So I would humbly ask anyone listening to this to try not to go into knee-jerk emotional excuse-making mode. If your beliefs about government are rational and moral, then you ought to be able to answer my silly, fringe, ignorant questions easily, right? If I was up here suggesting that two plus two equals five, you wouldn’t have to get emotional and storm out of the room. You could, I hope, calmly demonstrate my error.So, to keep things simple, let’s do this: Imagine that you get to decide your ideal government. For some reason, everyone else in the world has agreed to have you put together what you think would be the ultimate, most effective, fair, and efficient form of government. The world is counting on you to reboot humanity. All these problems we’re seeing, you can save the day by deciding what government we should have.So we don’t need to complain about what government is right now, and we don’t need to get stuck bickering over political parties and candidates. Because for this little mental exercise, you get to decide it all, all by yourself. The structure of government, the way it functions, who gets to hold various positions of power—all of that is completely up to you and only you. We’re completely overhauling society, and you get to be the political architect, the master planner, the one in charge. Anything you want.So, with that in mind, I have some questions for you about how things would be under your ideal political system and government—not under the mess we have now. Now, you don’t have to answer out loud; just think about it.Maybe you’d have your government focus on doing inherently justified stuff like organizing defense to protect the innocent from aggressors and to protect the country from scary invading armies and stuff. I mean, what could be wrong with that? So you hire and train a bunch of righteous, brave, strong people who can defend us all from the bad people. Sounds good.Okay, I have two questions. First, do you force people to fund your version of protection whether they want to or not? Because you have to admit, if your method of protecting people from thieves and robbers starts with you literally robbing them, something’s a little bit off. And that’s what every government does by way of taxation. We will protect and serve you, but first we have to take a bunch of your money and hurt you if you don’t hand it over for your protection.Isn’t that exactly what the mafia does? And they call it a protection racket. And everybody recognizes, that’s not okay. That’s not good. You’re not protecting me. You’re the thing I need protection from.My second question about your ideal government: if you’re trying to protect people, whether from armies or just local nasty people, do you allow competition? If someone else shows up offering protection services to people who want to purchase those services, and if defending people is inherently righteous and someone else can do a better job than you and your government at a lower price, are you going to send armed thugs to forcibly shut them down and stop them from doing that?Because once again, that’s just you being the mafia while pretending to protect people.Now, maybe your ideal government is also going to create lots of good things like infrastructure and roads and schools and so on. Who can object to that? How are you paying for it? Are you politely asking people to donate? Or will you be using the force of government to make people fund these plans of yours whether they want to or not?Because if you’re doing that by way of taxation, that’s not you generously giving anyone anything. That’s you spending other people’s money without their permission and then expecting them to be grateful for that. Which, by the way, is the foundation of every political campaign ever: generously giving away stolen loot. The Democrats do it, the Republicans do it, everybody does it.So, in your ideal situation, would you allow competition?Someone else shows up saying they can build a better road, train system, school, or whatever, for a better price. If enough people want to pay for that, what do you do? Does your ideal government interfere and forcibly forbid them from doing that? I could keep going, but hopefully, you understand the pattern here. Whatever you would try to use political power for, are you going to use force to make people fund it and use force to stop people from offering better services?Because if you do that, you’re just an immoral thug and an enemy of freedom and humanity, like every other government in the history of the world.Now, maybe you’ll proudly say, “No, I wouldn’t force people. I would allow people to decide if they want to fund the services I provide. And I’ll allow competition. I’m not going to be authoritarian and coerce anyone into funding it or going along with my version of what should happen. I’ll give my plans, and people can decide whether to support them or not, but I’m not going to threaten to beat them up, cage them, or take their money.”Okay, if that’s your attitude, first of all, good for you. I commend you for your moral principles and your respect for other people’s freedom. But I would, however, point out that if you do that, you aren’t describing or planning government anymore.Now you’re just doing stuff you already had the right to as a mere peasant. You’re coming up with ideas, seeing who wants to go along with them, or be involved, or help make that happen. By not forcing people to go along with your agenda, you gave away your power, and you stopped being government.Again, good for you, but that would demonstrate that your ideal preferred government is zero government and instead voluntary organization and cooperation. That happens to be mine too.Okay, brace yourself for the scary part because there’s a word for not having a violent parasitic ruling class. The word is anarchy, which literally means rule by no one. Monarchy is rule by one person, oligarchy is rule by a class of people, anarchy is rule by no one. It doesn’t mean no cooperation, it doesn’t mean everyone scatter and run off into the woods, it doesn’t mean every man for himself, it doesn’t mean no organization. It only means that nobody has special rights, nobody has an exemption from morality.In short, to be an anarchist (Voluntaryist) literally just means that I don’t think anyone should be given societal permission to be evil. That is all that it means. Why is that seen as extreme by so many people?Now, that’s definitely not what you’d think anarchism means. If you base it on how the state propagandists talk about it in the media, it’s chaos and mayhem. Hmm, who benefits from people thinking that not having a ruling class means chaos and violence and mayhem?Maybe people who want to rule you?At the beginning of this extremist rant, I assert that a whole lot of basically good people as a result of their beliefs are actually a huge part of the problem. To be blunt, the belief in authority tricks otherwise decent human beings into becoming agents of evil. And I do not use that word lightly. Back to you coming up with a master plan to impose on the world. If you really and truly believed that you had every moral right to forcibly control and extort and the rest of humanity, would you treat them as equals? No. Would you commit a bunch of immoral authoritarian oppression? Yeah. Why wouldn’t you? If you have the right to rule and everyone else has the obligation to obey you, then you don’t view them as equals. You don’t view them as free, self-owning human beings. You view them as livestock, and that’s exactly how everyone in political power necessarily views you. If someone thinks they have the right to tax you and control all sorts of decisions and behaviors, if they sought out a position of power from which they can dominate you, then they do not view you They view you as a subject. Now, we’ve been bombarded our entire lives with all manner of rhetoric and mythology designed to hide the true nature of this arrangement.We’re told that government is, oh, we as a people make the decisions. No, it isn’t. Well, it’s a body that represents us and carries out the, no, it’s not. It’s how we all get together.No, it isn’t. Setting aside the silly mythology we’re all taught to mindlessly parrot, what actually is government? This is key because once people recognize what it is, they don’t want it anymore.Government is simply a bunch of mere mortal human beings wielding political power, telling the rest of us what to do, what not to do, dictating how much money we have to give them and how much of the fruits of our labor they will allow us to keep. And if we disobey any of their arbitrary commands, they send armed enforcers after us. That’s what government actually is: a violent, immoral, parasitical ruling class.But wait, here’s the thing — the problem isn’t even the politicians, as slimy and corrupt as they are. If there was just a relatively small group of psychopaths saying, “We’re in charge,” we could all just say, “Who cares? We don’t recognize you.” They could be ignored, and life could go on. The problem isn’t that power-hungry psychopaths think they have the right to rule us; the problem is that most of us believe they have the right to rule us, and think we are obligated to obey whatever arbitrary nonsense they make up and call “law.”All of their power comes from their victims imagining them to be legitimate authority. And if you really and truly believe that government has the right to use force, why wouldn’t you ask them to go rob other people to give you free stuff? If you were to do it, it would be bad, but somehow it’s good if they do it. Why wouldn’t you ask them to do that?When people talk about political corruption, I have to chuckle. The term is redundant. There is no other kind of political action. The difference is that when someone else uses government force to serve their interests at the expense of your freedom and prosperity, you call it corruption. But if you can find a way to use government force to serve your interests at the expense of other people’s freedom and prosperity, you call it good representative government. It’s the same damn thing.The political parasites will keep us at war with each other forever until humanity figures that out and we stop asking them to rob and violently dominate our neighbors.I’m going to wrap this up with something so simple that most people will think, there has to be more to it than that. With all the convoluted, twisted, perverted political babble out there, I want to leave you with one obvious concept. Something so clear that even little children should be able to understand it, and it holds the key to rebooting humanity and instantly removing the vast majority of injustice, violence, and oppression in the world. Ready for it?This is super advanced, so pay attention: If you shouldn’t do something yourself, then don’t ask anyone else — including government — to do it for you.As basic and obvious as that sounds, and as quickly as everyone thinks, well, yeah, of course, the sad truth is that a grand total of zero voters actually abide by this. They all vote to have the government do things they know would be wrong if they did them themselves. Zero people who believe in government, of any kind or size, abide by this principle.But if humanity could actually grasp this painfully obvious idea — and then act on it — the world would be drastically different in an incredibly positive way. The vast majority of oppression would disappear. War would be over.So once again, I leave you with the ridiculously simple solution to most of humanity’s problems: If you shouldn’t do something yourself, then don’t ask anyone else, including government, to do the same thing for you.The rest of the Liberty on the Rocks – Sedona – The Voluntaryism Conference presentation are available at Sedona.ArtOfLiberty.org and https://watch.civl.com/programs/the-voluntaryism-conference-2024About Larken RoseFor decades Larken Rose has been an outspoken proponent of the principles of self-ownership, non-aggression and a stateless society. An author of several books, including “The Most Dangerous Superstition” and “The Iron Web,” and the primary screenwriter of the recently-released “Jones Plantation” film, Mr. Rose has produced hundreds of videos and articles and given dozens of talks, dissecting and exposing the irrational and destructive nature of the belief in political “authority.” Larken’s Websiteshttp://www.therosechannel.comhttp://www.youtube.com/larkenrosehttp://www.jonesplantationfilm.comAbout Liberty on the Rocks Conference & The Art of Liberty FoundationIs the biggest secret in American/ international politics that “government” is illegitimate, immoral and completely unnecessary? Voluntaryism, REAL Freedom, is the only moral political philosophy on the market. Every other political “ISM” including socialism, communism and constitutional republicanism has a ruling class that has rights that you don’t have, an illogical exception from morality, and “voting” is so easily rigged by monopoly media, moneyed interests, and the organized crime “government” itself counting the votes with unauditable black box voting machines and mail in ballots that it is, frankly, a joke to think your vote maters or will even be countedThe Art of Liberty Foundation, a start up public policy organization exposing the illegitimacy and criminality of “government” from a principled voluntaryist perspective, is also educating the public on the 2nd biggest secret: We don’t really need “Government”! 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Etienne de la Boetie2, author of Government: The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! & Founder of the Art of Liberty Foundation gives an introduction to VoluntaryismWe are excited to announce the release of the full videos from Liberty on the Rocks, – Sedona – The Voluntaryism Conference including a bonus video from Senior Mises Institute Fellow Dr. Bob Murphy on the Market for Private Military Defense.  All the videos can be found on the website of the conference at Sedona.ArtOfLiberty.org AND on CiVL, the new streaming platform for intellectuals, libertarians, and voluntaryists where the content is available for the “big screen” on Roku, Fire and their app.  Check it out at: https://watch.civl.com/programs/the-voluntaryism-conference-2024Etienne de la Boetie2, author of Government: The Biggest Scam in History Exposed, delves into the provocative ideas that challenge conventional views on governance. Etienne argues that government, far from being a legitimate or moral institution, serves as a mechanism for control and exploitation driven by intergenerational organized crime using “government” as a technique to rob and control populations. He introduces voluntaryism, a philosophy advocating for a society free of coercion, where interactions are voluntary and markets fulfill the roles traditionally held by the government. Etienne discusses concepts like the non-aggression principle, the power of free markets, and the manipulation of public perception through media. This episode sets the stage for a thought-provoking journey into a society without rulers, where peace and prosperity arise from individual freedom and spontaneous order.Transcript & SlidesMy name is Etienne de la Boetie2, I am the founder of the Art of Liberty Foundation. I’m best known for the book “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed!, where I make the case that government is best thought of as a technique for robbing and controlling populations. It’s always illegitimate because it’s impossible to have a legitimate moral government for some reasons we’re going to outline further on, but it’s impossible to delegate rights you don’t have yourself to a representative to represent you doing something that you don’t have the ability to do yourself. It is impossible to be bound by a social contract you did not sign. And if my lovely fiancé and I can’t vote to rob you because there’s two of us and one of you, it doesn’t matter that there’s 10 of us, or 158 million of us, or 338 million of us, or that we “vote” to have an organization work on our behalf to do something that we don’t have the ability to do ourselves. And so, “government” has really been the biggest scam in all of human history; it’s been a way of robbing and controlling populations and tax-farming human labor. And we really don’t need government. And we’re going to break that down in a little bit. But the subtitle of the book is: How Inter-Generational Organized Crime Runs the “Government,” Media and Academia. Our thesis is that the government works hand in hand with monopoly media to control the information that the population receives and make them believe that government is legitimate, desirable, and necessary, even though it is not. And so, on 50 different television channels, news channels, you’re going to see all of this arguing over the election. Vote for the blue “government” candidate, vote for the red “government” candidate. But you’re never ever going to see the alternative which is: We Don’t Really Need “Government”! The world is a self-organizing place, it produces spontaneous order and everything the government does would be done better faster and cheaper by the free market and so that’s really the case that we’re going to make today. That everything the government does, that is not redistributive… I.E. you can’t rob Peter to pay Paul, but most of what the government does is provide services that include: Delivering the mail, running a train system and the managing aircraft into airports and things like that. All of that could be done by the free market much better. This has been the best-kept secret in all of human history because it’s the one thing that the rulers don’t want you to know about: There’s an option on the menu that involves no rulers! And so just to give you some examples: Google and Facebook turned down our advertising, they would not advertise this conference. The Art of Liberty Foundation is regularly censored on Google. We’ve had links de-indexed off of Google. We can prove that. We’ve been shadow-banned. We’ve been demonetized. We’ve been de-indexed. And so, this is really the thing that government does not want you to know that you really don’t need its mandatory services. So, what is the alternative? If we do not have a government, how would we organize society? How would things get done? Who’s going to build the roads? And that really is the good news message that I bring you today, that everything the government does would be done better, faster, and cheaper by the free market. And so, that’s widely known as voluntaryism. And what does that mean? Well, number one, it means that all relationships between people must be voluntary. Nobody is able to force you to do anything that you don’t want to do. Nobody has the ability to extort money out of you if you don’t want them to extort money out of you. Nobody has the ability to force your children to go to a school that you don’t want them to go… to learn about a curriculum that you don’t feel comfortable with. Nobody gets the ring of power because there isn’t a ring of power. And that’s when I say that’s the only “ISM” that’s fair for everybody. Every other “ISM,” whether it be communism, socialism, or constitutional republican ism, all of those other political “ISMs,” has a ruling class that has rights that you don’t have, and that has an exemption from morality that you don’t have, that has the ability to use violence and extortion and coercion on the rest of the population, and moneyed interests so easily rig that system that it’s frankly a joke. On our Substack at ArtOfLiberty.Substack.com, I have an article titled: Why (and How!) You Should Help Your Kids Steal Their Student Council Election. In it, I break down five or six different techniques that are very simple behavioral psychology techniques that would allow a moneyed interest or just some people working together behind the scenes to easily rig not just a student council election but, frankly, the elections that the population is going to be participating in next week, where they’re going to be voting on unauditable black box voting machines and with mail-in paper ballots. Moneyed interests so easily rig the system that it’s useless. It simply doesn’t deliver the goods. And so, the good news message is: That we really don’t need government! Also inherent in the idea of voluntaryism is really this idea that the world is a self-organizing system. It produces something called Spontaneous Order. And everything that the government does would be done by the rest of society better, faster, and cheaper without the waste, fraud, abuse, and extortion. And so, on the slide I want to show you two visual examples. I’m really known for my visualizations… most people are visual learners, and they come to insight much quicker if you show them an image versus just trying to explain it to them.The alternative to voluntaryism is something called Statism, and Statism is essentially the indoctrinated belief in having a state. It is the indoctrinated belief in having a government, whether that government is communist, whether that government is a constitutional republican government, whether that government is a democracy, or that government is a monarchy. If you believe in having a government, then you’re a Statist, and you believe in having a “State,” and if you believe in having a State, you believe in using violence on your friends and your neighbors and your colleagues to put your preferred ruler into power over them. And there’s a karmic debt that comes with that.That’s why I say that Voluntaryism is the only political “ISM” that’s fair for all and that leads to harmony and prosperity for all because we don’t have to be fighting about these things at the political level. One of the examples I gave last night is going on in these elections right now. There’s a real knife fight at the school board level. And if you lose in San Francisco, you get critical race theory or LGBTQ studies imposed on your child, whether or not you want them to learn about that or not. If you lose in Oklahoma, you get fundamentalist Christianity pushed on your children, whether or not you’re a fundamentalist Christian or not. If you lose in Minneapolis, you might get some flavor of Islam pushed on your kids.In a world without government, YOU get to decide what school your child attends. YOU get to determine if it’s Waldorf, Montessori, homeschool, vocational education, or a gazillion other kinds that the market offers instead of the one-size-fits-all, we’re going to fight about this at the ballot box, and the winner takes all and the loser just gets stuck with whatever they get stuck with. On the right-hand side of the slide, you’ll see a visualization of voluntaryism compared to a few other political “ISMs.” And what you’re looking at is in the light blue box, almost at the bottom, you see Minarchism. Minarchists are people who believe in having a minimal government. And so strict constitutional conservatives would fall into the category of minarchists. And minarchism is really saying: “I’m willing to act violently on peaceful people to acquire fire protection, police, military, courts and roads.” And then that little box is nestled in a purple box where you’ll see Conservatives. Most conservatives are willing to act violently on peaceful people to acquire unemployment insurance and limited health care, limited housing, education, and things like that.Then that box is nestled in socialism, and they want to have universal health care in addition to everything and all of the other boxes. Then communism – all the other boxes are nestled in that, and communists are willing to act violently on peace. people to acquire housing, food, energy, clothing, and everything else in the list.Under those boxes is the dark blue box for: voluntaryism which says: “I am not willing to use violence against peaceful people. I will seek to acquire desired services through voluntary relationships” we don’t need to act finally on anybody the world self-organizing system and that we will seek to acquire and meet our political and socio-economic goals voluntarily. Peacefully through cooperation and collaboration with others. And so that really is what sets us apart. Voluntaryism is a little bit of the rebrand of peaceful anarchy. Now, for a lot of people who are tuning in from around the world, that name may scare you because anarchists have been associated with everything from violence to communism when, in reality, all anarchy means is “No Rulers.” It does NOT mean “No Rules”. It simply means “No Rulers, but “the rulers” because they don’t want you to know that there’s an option on the menu called “No Rulers.” They have used control of the media and even control of the dictionary. I break it down in my book “Government”- The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! how they’ve changed the meaning over time so that the word for “No Rulers” now means: “Chaos and Dystopia” when that could not be further from the truth. You know, we don’t need government. And so, I mentioned that it’s a provider of services and whether whatever that services, whether it’s armed protective services that they call the police, or dispute resolution that they call the courts, all of these things could be and would be provided. And we will demonstrate to you today throughout the conference that it can be provided by the free market, mutual aid societies, homeowners’ associations and co-ops, insurance companies, nonprofits, and genuine charities.There’s a moral case for voluntaryism, and it really is centered on something called the Non-Aggression Principle(NAP), which states that nobody has the ability to use violence or aggression on anybody else. And while that sounds like so basic that you would teach that to a kindergartner, you’d be amazed at how many people. give the government an exception from the Non-Aggression Principle and say: “Oh, well, the governments just got to do that because without it, how would we have roads? How would we have courts? How would we have all of these things that we desire? The other side of this equation is if you advocate for government, whether you’re advocating for “blue government” or “red government:” You advocate for violence to be used on your friends, your neighbors, and your colleagues to impose your desired ruler over them and “voting for violence” has, as I mentioned, a karmic debt. So, there’s a moral case for voluntaryism.There’s also a logical case for voluntaryism: everything else is immoral, unproven, or has failed. You know, a lot of people think communism looks good on paper, but it simply doesn’t work, doesn’t deliver the goods, and leads to bloodshed and murder and violence. Society falls apart, and everybody forgets about it. And then the young idealistic youth want to try it again, but… this time… they will get it right! It’s just not logical, and the non-aggression principle should apply to everybody, or else it would be dumb to give your potential political opponents an exemption for morality. There is a utilitarian case for voluntaryism. Free markets produce the goods! Commerce benefits both parties, OR the trade does not take place. Now when I say commerce or capitalism, many people associate this with the system we’re under right now. Which is NOT capitalism at all, and it’s not a free market at all! It would technically be called “cronyism” or “crony capitalism,” where the banks are given the ability to create money out of thin air. And they’re buying up the world with their little paper tickets, providing unlimited capital to certain favored corporations, and these favored corporations are buying up and monopolizing the world. The unfairness of the world we live in today is made possible by the government, which has metastasized, making all of the evils in the world worse. There’s also the “I-Don’t-Want-to-be-a-Chump” case for voluntaryism because Statism is being openly andobviously propagandized to the population using various unethically manipulative techniques that I break down in my book. The Award-Winning Documentary Theatres of War Breaks Down the Pentagon and Intelligence Agencies involvement in 1000+ Movies and 1000+ Tell-a-vision ShowsThe government is “running game” on the population! The “government” is weaving the American flag into 1000+ movies and 1000+ television shows that we know of. They’re using an advertising technique called anchoring to build up the audience to a moment of high positive emotion and then show you the flag. They’re going to put the flag on the back of NBA backboard so you subconsciously associate the exhilaration of the goal with the flag. They’re going to run a gazillion other little tricks and techniques on you. Once you see it you can’t unsee it and nobody wants to get “chumped!” I’m going to tell you that my organization is called the Art of Liberty Foundation. We’re a startup public policy organization. We’re approaching the problem from a principled, voluntarist perspective: that government is illegitimate and undesirable on its face. And I’m going to wrap it up there. About the SpeakerEtienne de la Boetie2 is the founder of the Art of Liberty Foundation, a startup public policy foundation exposing the illegitimacy and criminality of “government” from a principled voluntaryist perspective. He is the author of “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! – How Inter-Generational Organized Crime Runs the “Government,” Media and Academia – available at Government-Scam.com and Voluntaryism – How the Only “ISM” Fair for Everyone Leads to Harmony, Prosperity and Good Karma for All – available at Voluntaryism-Book.org.  He organizes the Liberty on the Rocks – International Voluntaryism Conference each fall in Sedona that brings together voluntaryists from around the world at Sedona.ArtOfLiberty.org. He publishes the Daily News from the Art of Liberty Foundation at DailyNewsFromAoLF.Substack.com and Five Meme Friday, a weekly survey of the best of the alternative media at ArtOfLiberty.org/Subscribe and all his original writings and research can be found at ArtOfLiberty.Substack.com and ArtOfLiberty.orgCheck Out the Rest of the Conference On CiVL!Get the Rest of the Conference on CiVL, the new free streaming platform for intellectuals. libertarians and voluntaryists at: https://watch.civl.com/programs/the-voluntaryism-conference-2024Like the Conference? Pre-Order the Book! If you liked this presentation from the 2024 Liberty on the Rocks conference in Sedona, then you will love the Art of Liberty Foundation’s upcoming book, Voluntaryism – How the Only “ISM” Fair for Everyone leads to Harmony, Prosperity, and Good Karma for All. The book is in the same image and meme-rich format as “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed!, featuring “the executive summary of the executive summary” to rapidly understand the important issues. If you or anyone you know has any doubt that the free market could provide all the legitimate, non-redistributive services provided by government, better, faster, and cheaper, without the waste, fraud, abuse, and extortion, then this is the book for you. You can pre-order a copy of the book through our $25,000 Indiegogo campaign to launch it and get it into wide distribution at voluntaryism-book.org.

I also expose the big secret behind Elon Musk: Are He and Jake Paul Artificially Created “High Status Monkey” to Steer Perception with X?I had a great conversation with Dr. Barre Lando and Mike Winner of Alfa Vedic, and it appears to be going viral because my inbox is blowing up with new subscriptions to both Substack, Five Meme Friday and our newsletter! I went on some epic rants, but I suspect the one that is generating all the interest is where I break down my educated speculation that Elon Musk is an artificially created “High-Status Monkey” designed to steer human perception with Twitter / X.Let me explain in more detail: It turns out that monkeys and humans have an innate biological desire to see higher-status monkeys/humans. This was discovered/proven in a series of experiments conducted by Duke University Medical Center researchers Robert O Deaner, Michael L Platt, and Amit V Khera. in 2005 who hooked up male rhesus monkeys to a video monitor also connected to a hamster bottle containing cherry juicy juice. The study was entitled: Monkeys Pay Per View: Adaptive Valuation of Social Images by Rhesus Macaques. As long as the monkeys kept drinking the juicy juice, the various images would keep scrolling across the screen. At any time, the monkey could stop the image by NOT drinking the juice (delay of gratification), so in essence, the monkeys could pay to see certain images.It was discovered that the male monkeys would pay to see two different types of images:Rear female monkey hindquarters/perineum (monkey pornography)Kinda obvious… but what was even more fascinating is that they would pay to see pictures of:Higher Status Monkeys! Monkeys live in a tribe called a troop. Every troop has a defined pecking order where the male monkeys are ranked by their ability to beat up the other monkeys. The researchers found that the monkeys would pay to see pictures of higher status monkeys in the troop/tribe. Monkey #3 would pay to see pictures of monkeys #2 & #1 but wouldn’t pay to see pictures of monkeys #4 – #20.Was Jake Paul Created & Steered on Cartel Media Platforms like YouTube, where this Jake Paul music video has generated 302,000,000 views. High status in humans includes the ability to beat up other humans, which is evident with the current societal fascination with the Mike Tyson – Jake Paul fight, where much of the population is having their attention steered. But human high status is also dependent on celebrity and wealth, both of which have been given to Elon Musk to create the highest-status monkey on the planet. Is Elon Muck DARPA’s boy who takes technologies invented on the tax-payer nickel and privatizes the profits for organized crime “government” insiders? Is he a created frontman designed to steer the perception of the masses who are being tricked into giving him their attention using basic behavior psychology?Does his purchase of X/Twitter supercharge that ability to steer perception with the ability to promote his tweets (Which lower-status humans are willing to “pay” to see) AND the ability to algorithmically promote controlled opposition voices placed into X feeds? In contrast, authentic voices are demonetized, de-indexed, and shadow-banned.Is that why there is hidden Freemasonic symbolism and numerology in X’s logo? See our article: Etienne & Jason Christoff – Why is 666 Hidden in Cartel Company Logos, Trump’s OK Sign and Twitter’s New Logo?Other Facts About MuskElon Musk Is Not a Renegade Outsider – He’s a Massive Pentagon ContractorElon Musk is introducing his new right-wing fans to the idea of implementing a carbon tax, and it goes about as well as you would expect.Mentioned in the PodcastThe Federal Bureau of Tweets: Twitter Is Hiring an Alarming Number of FBI Agents By Alan Macleod, Mint Press NewsFlashback National Security Search Engine: Google’S Ranks Are Filled With Cia AgentsTiktok: chinese “trojan horse” is run by state department officialsAbout the AuthorEtienne de la Boetie2 is the founder of the Art of Liberty Foundation, a startup public policy foundation exposing the illegitimacy and criminality of “government” from a principled voluntaryist perspective. He is the author of “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! – How Inter-Generational Organized Crime Runs the “Government,” Media and Academia – available at Government-Scam.com and Voluntaryism – How the Only “ISM” Fair for Everyone Leads to Harmony, Prosperity and Good Karma for All – available for pre-order at Voluntaryism-Book.org.  He organizes the Liberty on the Rocks – International Voluntaryism Conference each fall in Sedona that brings together voluntaryists from around the world at Sedona.ArtOfLiberty.org. He publishes the Daily News from the Art of Liberty Foundation at DailyNewsFromAoLF.Substack.com and Five Meme Friday, a weekly survey of the best of the alternative media at ArtOfLiberty.org/Subscribe and all his original writings and research can be found at ArtOfLiberty.Substack.com and ArtOfLiberty.orgOur IndieGoGo for my new book: Voluntaryism – How the Only “ISM” Fair for Everyone Leads to Harmony, Prosperity and Good Karma for All! has raised $1901 from 41 backers or 7% of our $25,000 goal in less than a week with 28 days left! You can get some great perks for pre-ordering at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/voluntaryism-why-we-don-t-need-government

Where is Voluntaryism Working Now and What Does a Voluntaryist Future Look Like? I was interviewed by Ryan Cristian right before Liberty on the Rocks – Sedona – The Voluntaryism Conference where we kicked around aspects of Voluntaryism including:Voluntaryist & libertarian communities including Cheran, the Mexican town that kicked out the Mexican federal government and the cartels, Prospera – on the island of Roatan off the coast of Hondouras, which negotiated limited sovereignty from Honduras to create a business-friendly community with one of the lowest regulatory and tax burdens on the planet, and the Free State Project in New Hampshire which is moving thousands of libertarians, voluntaryists and peaceful anarchists to the state to roll back “government.”Ryan Cristian was live-streaming from Liberty on the Rocks and over 12,000+ folks tuned in or caught the replay. We will be syndicating both the conference proceedings and Ryan’s superb “Behind the Scenes” interviews with the speakers shortly so stay tuned! Great Comment on the Video from The Deoccultist:I love the comment people have regarding anarchy (Voluntaryism): “If we had anarchy/voluntarism some psycho would try to take over.” They say that as if the said psycho would be successful. This kind of reasoning is very revealing of how ignorant we are of morality. The only way we COULD have a functioning anarchist society is if the majority of the people no longer believed in “authority” and understood it as immoral. Anarchy (Voluntaryism) isn’t some political position with a centralized power, it’s the absence of the belief that people can rule others. So if a psycho thought he could take over and be a dictator, he’d be laughed off the stage. If he tried to use violence, we’d take him down in a nanosecond. But statists still have all that programming rattling around that “government” is natural, normal and necessary so the first thing they fear is violent domination.. which is ironic since that’s exactly what they support now. The first requirement for anyone to be able to see the illegitimacy and moral wrongness of “authority” is true conscience. Without that deep understanding of what right and wrong actually are, the belief in “authority” is still possible. While most people may have good intentions and have a basic understanding of “don’t harm others,” it’s not deeply understood enough to the point of applying it globally. And while more and more people are starting to see the evil machinations of government, they’re still looking for a savior whether it’s some religious avatar, a politician, a mystical force, an alien race, or even AI. There’s no universal conscience, no sense of personal responsibility, no courage, no agapé love. It’s still very much “ME ME ME, screw you.” So, we still have a long way to go.. and we need to be the most persistent and belligerent moral educators if we’re ever going to reach that critical mass.About the AuthorEtienne de la Boetie2 is the founder of the Art of Liberty Foundation, the author of “Government” – The Biggest Scam in History… Exposed! and the editor of the Art of Liberty Daily News on Substack and Five Meme Friday, which delivers hard-hitting voluntaryist memes and the best of the alternative media.He is the author of The Covid-19 Suspects and Their Ties to Eugenics and Population Control/Reduction and Solving Covid – The Covid 19, Eugenics, and Vaccine/Drug Scam TimelineOur IndieGoGo for my new book: Voluntaryism – How the Only “ISM” Fair for Everyone Leads to Harmony, Prosperity and Good Karma for All! has raised $1702 from 34 backers or 6% of our $25,000 goal in less than a week with 37 days left! You can get some great perks for pre-ordering at https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/voluntaryism-why-we-don-t-need-government