Check your Statist Privilege, Control-Freak!

As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following artwork here, being shared by the page, “The Great Work,” and originally posted it to my own wall, along with commentary…

"Statists are not only willing to forfeit their freedom, and happily embrace government coercion...... But they're also arrogantly insistent that you will do the same, and they support government violence against you to gain your compliance."

“Statists are not only willing to forfeit their freedom, and happily embrace government coercion……
But they’re also arrogantly insistent that you will do the same, and they support government violence against you to gain your compliance.”

My Commentary: Check your Statist privilege, control-freak!

Successfully Peaceful and Prosperous Anarchy Has Existed All Throughout the Humanity’s History

The following debate originally took place upon my Facebook wall, after I shared artwork posted to the page, “Anarchist Memes” by a fan…

Rayn:

"What people think Anarchy is What Anarchy really is"

“What people think Anarchy is
What Anarchy really is”

Murilo M.: I like your posts Rayn, but this is one I have to disagree with. How can you be sure? Have you ever seen a country in which anarchy worked well?

Rayn: “I am often asked if anarchy has ever existed in our world, to which I answer: almost all of your daily behavior is an anarchistic expression. How you deal with your neighbors, coworkers, fellow customers in shopping malls or grocery stores, is often determined by subtle processes of negotiation and cooperation. Social pressures, unrelated to statutory enactments, influence our behavior on crowded freeways or grocery checkout lines. If we dealt with our colleagues at work in the same coercive and threatening manner by which the state insists on dealing with us, our employment would be immediately terminated. We would soon be without friends were we to demand that they adhere to specific behavioral standards that we had mandated for their lives.

Should you come over to our home for a visit, you will not be taxed, searched, required to show a passport or driver’s license, fined, jailed, threatened, handcuffed, or prohibited from leaving. I suspect that your relationships with your friends are conducted on the same basis of mutual respect. In short, virtually all of our dealings with friends and strangers alike are grounded in practices that are peaceful, voluntary, and devoid of coercion.” – Butler Shaffer

Rayn“Until shortly before the common era, the very last 1 percent of human history, the social landscape consisted of elementary self-governing kinship units that might, occasionally, cooperate in hunting, feasting, skirmishing, trading, and peacemaking. It did not contain anything one could call a state. In other words, living in the absence of state structures has been the standard human condition.” – Yale professor, James C. Scott

Has Anarchy Ever Existed Before?
https://theruleoffreedom.wordpress.com/2012/06/11/has-anarchy-existed-before/
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The Majority Cannot Give Consent for the Minority

The following correspondence originally took place upon my Facebook wall, after I posted artwork being shared by the page, “Being Free“…

Rayn:

"Democracy is based on the idea that the majority can give consent for the minority. But consent doesn't work like that."

“Democracy is based on the idea that the
majority can give consent for the minority.
But consent doesn’t work like that.”

Jordan K.: I want to post this photo every day of my life. I might just print this out and start putting it on telephone poles.

Rayn

“Yo, Dawg! We heard that you don’t like the tyranny of the majority over minority groups… So, we legitimized the authority of an ultra-minority through a voting majority, so they can tyrannically rule over everybody, accordingly, while you formally select the next elect minority of tyranny to fully control your humanity, in perpetuity!” (Artwork by Rayn, and originally located here)

“Yo, Dawg! We heard that you don’t like the tyranny of the majority over minority groups…
So, we legitimized the authority of an ultra-minority through a voting majority, so they can tyrannically rule over everybody, accordingly, while you formally select the next elect minority of tyranny to fully control your humanity, in perpetuity!”
(Artwork by Rayn, and originally located here)

Happy to See a Friend Becoming Interested in Voluntaryism

The following correspondence originally took place upon the Facebook wall of my friend, Jordan K…

2016-02-23-happy-to-see-a-friend-becoming-interested-in-voluntaryism

Jordan K.: I’m getting interested in Voluntaryism. Has anyone heard of it?

Mike J.: Yes. Just now.

Rayn: Voluntaryist is my middle name! 🙂

Ryan P.: Is that like being “Voluntold”??

Kris K.: It’s a society without rulers

Feminist Doublethink

The following correspondence originally took place here, upon the Facebook page, “Being Libertarian“…

(replies from all third parties have been omitted for clarity)

“I believe that I have a right to your money for my birth control!” “No, thank you. I don’t believe that you can take my money for…” “WHAT IS WITH THIS WAR ON WOMEN??? STOP FORCING YOUR BELIEFS DOWN MY THROAT!!! I HAVE A RIGHT TO DECIDE HOW TO SPEND YOUR MONEY AND THAT’S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!!!!”

Rayn: Popular Feminist abortion slogans: “My body, my choice,” and “Stay out of my uterus.”

How about some similarly-themed, doublethink-exposing Feminist birth-control slogans? “My body, your non-consensual funding.” Ha! “Enter into a non-consensual, long-term financial relationship with my uterus.” Ha ha!

Jay K.: ‘My paycheck, my choice?’ ‘Stay out of my wallet?’