This
is a reference post, created by amalgamating various other posts because it
will be handy to have a single post I can link to in hope of demolishing the
emoting nonsense of the statist argument a caring society must order itself
around that bloodied altar of the common good. Such a society is anything but
caring: it is characterised by greed, by incivility, and ultimately, by the
collapse of our private lives under the brass knuckles of out of control tax
surveillance states, and then the viciousness of the snitch society the likes
of which were created in every hellhole state in human history.
First
from my post The Tyrants Call, the philosophical basis:
… the common good has been the battle cry of almost every tyrant
throughout history. The common good has been so important, apparently, that
hundreds of millions of individuals over the twentieth century had to be
exterminated or killed by the state for it. Rights cannot attach to a
collective, when you try you open the gates to tyranny and atrocity. That same
common good is currently being used in Christchurch – [post-earthquakes] - to
usurp private property rights on a breath-taking scale. Just as the common good
is used as the excuse to steal the property and effort of productive
individuals while making those individuals victims to a department of state
with literally the powers of the true Orwellian police state. To be meaningful,
and cause no harm, rights can and must only attach to individuals. A society
must only base itself on protecting the smallest minority: the rights and
property of an individual (and especially from the abuse of state).
Then to narrow the focus, from this blog’s most read post, still with
hundreds of weekly reads, and growing, despite having been written in 2012, 1984 Comes to 2012, talking of how children
in the UK were in a school education unit being taught to dob in suspected tax
evaders in their neighbourhood (including mum and dad presumably):
Look at the ‘good citizens’ these children are taught to be in our
schools, with all these ‘obligations’ to each other. And so strong is the
programming, that I am confident more than ninety percent of those reading this
would feel, deep down, that they have to agree with the teachers’ ethic here, with
what this tax course in the schools is founded on: that self-sacrifice for the
common good, is a noble thing, and the needs of others are what social
democracies must hold at their centre. This is what New Zealand Socialist
commentator, Chris - The Fist - Trotter forces on us.
But it’s a magic trick, an illusion, that’s been done in our minds by
Gramsci, a linguistic sleight of hand, all the more evil because it initially
appeals to our 'better natures'. All we need do to understand it, see the
reality of it, is change the focus, the narrative point of view, and see what
it really says, which is that for you to live your life, it is acceptable that
the lives of others, total strangers, be sacrificed to you, their pursuit of
happiness destroyed for you, and that the state will initiate force to back you
up in this, and mince up the livelihoods, and freedom, of those who will not bow
down to you. And part of being a good citizen, now, is for you to dob these
people in, so they can be dealt to.
Free men know that the civilised society is not based on such an
extinguishment of life, but founded on a bed-rock of the non-initiation of force,
particularly the state against the people, and on each individual being
responsible for themselves, and self-reliant. That a civilised society works on
the natural love and affection between families and loved ones, on compassion
and charity freely given for strangers, and on voluntarism.
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