Since yesterday I have been playing with the idea of writing a blog that is in support of the anti-state view as a way of better understanding what the idea means, through writing and thinking it out. I have chosen to let this blog attempt to do just that, but not just as a rhetorical exercise, but also containing parts of what I really think about the idea. It just so happens that today there was an event that inspired many thoughts that I wish to share here.
The event occurred when one of the guys that has been working here for a short time made of point of stepping out of his way to tell me, in rather incriminating terms, cordial as they were, that I had been using a particular chainsaw in the wrong way on a tree I was cutting down, because it would cause it to wear out faster. Whether that was true or not, I can’t really say, but my activity did not represent any pattern of behavior in his mind, but was rather a routine-like exploitation of my fault. Although I was patient with him at the time, I found myself thinking later that I wanted to say, “RRRR, rewriting, ‘Wow what a nice job you did with that tree today, hey but be nice to that chainsaw…wouldn’t want to wear it out too fast’...” At which point he would ask me, “What are you doing?” and I would tell him, “Reprogramming what you said so as to compensate for you lack of social skills.” It was at that moment when I was thinking all this that it occurred to me, the state or government is really a lot like a micromanaging boss. In fact, I think most everything we dislike about a micromanaging boss we dislike about government. First, they always have the “right” answer, they consider themselves more intelligent than us, have a unemotional compulsion to tell us what to do or what we did wrong, and always look at things from their perspective, as if there weren’t any other one. I don’t know about you but this is what I don’t like about the idea of state or government. Why should anyone think they can or should make choices for me? If I wanna have my kid in my own house or even in my own bathtub, what in the world should the government have to do with that? Obviously there aren’t very good reasons, if any at all. The government rarely if ever has the “right” answer for anything that we generally care about, communally they may be more intelligent, but they’re still not you, they don’t know who you are and what you’ve experienced, they can’t make a decision based on the same things you would.

Another truth, that few seem to realize today, is that the government won’t save you, even if it attempts to it won’t be pretty. This is simply because the government can’t make generalizations about issues that affect such diverse populations. The government is screwing over our economy in an attempt to “save” us, enough said. And, you are right about power. It’s like that old quotation, “Absolute power corrupts absolutely” but the same is true in any degree, partial power corrupts partially and minimal power corrupts minimally. Power will be corrupted to the degree that we allow it to exist; that said we cannot totally get rid of it; in this, it will always be a war of degree. If that is the war you wish to fight, I will fight with you, but reluctantly, for, if we win, we stand to have much more power than we ever wanted. For, to fight for liberty and freedom for all, you have to allow those people to live that don’t believe in liberty and freedom, or, at least, do believe in more power.

This issue of power brings me to my last and, I think, most convincing practical reason to be anti-state (thus far). That is, the simple fact that the state is not going to degenerate into unorganized masses of people that happen to get along, if only it did, but rather it will degenerate into an ever increasing amount of control and restriction of liberty; to fascism, socialism, or even worse. All this is inevitable if the state is not destroyed. The power bubble is not burst with a slight push from the finger of humanity, but rather with the rage and tumult of it. Jefferson once said that a revolution should occur every twenty years, I believe he said this because he knew what I am saying is true. Revolution and revival is necessary for freedom and liberty to carry on in the human spirit. These principles tend to get buried in the mountain of political interpretation, and must often, be uncovered by the earthquake of human discontent.

Well, there you have it, I attempted to blog about the opposing view point, which, by my own argument, makes me more affable with the idea, and I would encourage others to use this blog to comment in similar ways to show what you think about the other side, because, at the end of the day, we want the truth more than we want to be right on some soon forgotten “Blog War.”

I claim that term! I made it up! If you use it, it better be in quotes or the U.S. copyright police will be come’n tah getcha…