Right Now

I've said it before and I don't have a problem saying it as often as necessary:

If I were walking past your house and came upon a crowd deliberating whether to enter the premises and take things that belonged to you, and they invited me to vote on the matter, I would swiftly inform them that there could be no vote about it because the matter is completely closed on the principle of private property. There is no such thing as a moral right to take a vote on whether to violate others' rights. In plain language, this is known as a conspiracy.

And there is no magic alchemy by which these principles are mooted simply by scaling the conspiracy up to the level of a whole nation. This is the plain fact lost on that dolt over at QandO, with his bone-headed effort to clean up the whorehouse and yet keep the business.

Look: I don't know of a "winning strategy". But I still maintain that passive civil disobedience is worth a try. This... thing that we're talking about is never going to go out of existence on its own, and it ought to be obvious -- to everyone with enough of a brain to even begin discussing it -- that voting is a manifest stipulation to the premise that others are allowed to rule our lives. For people who ostensibly take ideas seriously, this one constantly appalls and outrages me, for one. The thing to do is to get going on starving The Thing out of existence.

Believe me: nobody knows better than me what this entails. "They use the things we love, against us." (WJB III) I have just about given up everything I love. Nobody need point out to me what's involved.

And it might not work. I wouldn't put it past any of the various creatures we're talking about to build prisons just as fast as people witholding their productive energies could be rounded-up in the streets.

At least, however, the issues at the root of all of it could be made as clear as they need to be.

Mark my words: nobody is going to vote their way out of any of this.

And we're talking about the only time of your life that you're ever going to have.

When are you going to take charge of it?

For the sake of anything worth living for: when?