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Sympathy for the Minarchist
Dec 2007

Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm your average minarchist
The state is force but I'll say you can
Put a glove around the fist

I was around when Socrates
First used logic to debate
Made damn sure 'democracy'
Drowned his words and sealed his fate

Pleased to meet you
I'm sure you know my name
But what's puzzling me
Is why you play my game

In Roman times new liberty
Bought the wealth that set men free
They overthrew their overlords
And almost lived without a fee

I whispered soft
"You need the state"
Bought 'democracy'
With false currency

Pleased to meet you
Sure you know my name
But what's puzzling me
Is why you play my game

I watched in fear
When America
Overthrew a peer
For a taxless state

I shouted out
"Who'll make the roads you need?"
You stood and stared
And the state was saved

Let me please introduce myself
I'm your average minarchist
And I lay traps for anarchists
Who get stalled before they reach the truth

Pleased to meet you
I'm sure you know my name
But what's puzzling me
Is just why you play my game

Just as every state is false anarchy
And statelessness is peace
The state protects
What it pillages
And it just can't be restrained

So if you meet me
I will lie to you
'bout the roads, defense and schools
Use all your well-learned UPB
Or I'll lay your soul to waste, um yeah

Category:

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• minarchist
• ron
• paul
• freedomain
• libertarian
• republican
• democrat

[megamanium]

Hostile? It's a fucking song! calm the fuck down.

[freesk8]

I'm proposing that minarchists and anarchists work together to make government smaller.

If you would like to alienate minarchists by being unfriendly, then you reduce the likelihood that such cooperation will take place.

That is not a very intelligent strategy for achieving your goals of anarchy.

[famemolto]

I'm not sure what your goal is, but it cannot be persuasion.

The people you are most likely to persuade to anarchism are those who already have a healthy disgust for big government. So why go out of your way to insult minarchists, to give them the devil voice in your song? You instantly shut down their interest in your arguments. You ought to do a song that explain what will replace law courts and the military. Save your rancor for those you can never persuade.

[lordrazi111693]

so what is minachism? just a government existing.

sorry i can't understand what he voice said. odd accent

[MrTallSouth]

We are playing your game because you, right now, have no chance of winning, while we do, however small.

Only once a state of minarchy has been achieved (pun unintended), will anarchy have a chance.

Only THEN will we be playing against each other, will we be your actual enemies.

Then we will see who is right.

nice song.

[mongoose704]

If government and leadership is a myth then why has it existed throught out all documented human history and throughout nature itself????

Oh...history is a lie. Just deny the truth.

Leaders and government are inevitable. You'd think that one example of a leaderless, governmentless society exists or has ever existed. Nope, leaders always came about in every so called anarchist society whether elected, selected or de-facto. Best to just minimize government power as best we can.

[metal87power]

Did Ron Paul really was with this Magneto costume? :D When? How? Why?

[ThndersRage]

@peepnklown

Agree.

At this point I think it would be highly beneficial to both. As it stands now both are losing to statists. It was slow at first but these days things are ramping up. If something does not happen and soon, we will see emspeed1's '1984' in our time.

[nomoreyou1212]

heck yes!!

[Fetchdafish]

It isn't going to make minarchists less effective at spreading minarchism. No Statist is going to watch this video and decide to steer clear of minarchists. If it does offend minarchists, it's not going to make them any less eager to spread minarchism, unless of course it does its job and fills them with some nice introspective doubt. There really doesn't seem to be anything to worry about. Though honestly I would have liked if Stef took a little more time to write a better song.

[Fetchdafish]

There's no contradiction. It's the same path. Spreading the truth. Inasmuch as both approaches believe less government is better they are concurrent, and should collaborate as much as possible. But inasmuch as they differ they should make their disagreements known, because they are fundamental disagreements. I'm sorry I've gotten my feathers ruffled, that's my fault and my problem, but I seriously, I honestly do not believe this video or any other reasoned critique of minarchism is dangerous.

[emspeed1]

@Fetchdafish

(1b)"Spreading the truth and setting an example is not doing nothing, it is ALL WE CAN DO." Then the very next post "Of COURSE it's great that minarchist ideas are spreading, because down the road that means more anarchists..." Kind of contradictory but at least you are acknowledging that there is more than one path that can be taken, great. That has been my position all along. (cont.)