Posted by KAT on September 25, 19101 at 10:48:06:
Freedom, Now or Never
1. Fall Of The World Trade Center
2. Fatalities of organized Religion
3. Initiation of Force -- The Problem
4. Establishment of Objective Law -- The Solution
Introduction
Throughout the past thirty years, a few atheist/libertarian/objectivist
individuals in the United States and worldwide, have gained the yet best,
factual understandings of the dynamics of human civilization and the
main reasons for its worst problems.
For almost thirty years, their unique perspectives revealed to them the
urgency of working to replace the lethal principles of a traditional
civilization -- the fundaments of authority, self-deception, blind faith,
apathy, manipulation and death -- with principles of a new, matured human
civilization; a civilization whose foundations are built on the creation of
values, self-responsibility and genuine freedom from all force and authority.
Until now, those individuals seem to have failed to reach their goal in time,
making the implementation of a much faster, much more efficient strategy for
reaching that goal, necessary. Necessary, for a secure, free civilization to
rise; also necessary for the survival of humanity with its current freedom.
This publication will start the implementation of that strategy. It answers,
exactly, the questions of why, what, how, and who. Its logical evidence will
reveal why this point in time may be the last chance to establish and maintain
world-wide freedom for everyone. It will demonstrate what problems exist,
which do not only undermine the freedom and lives of whole populations, but
constantly, artificially diminish the life and potential of almost every
individual on this planet. It will then describe how individuals world-wide
can and must immediately work to overcome these problems for themselves --
fast and easy -- to be able to ultimately achieve the goal of individual
freedom globally, and that of immediate self-survival personally.
Chapter 1: Fall of the World Trade Center
og metaphors
The rise of the s and the resulting holocaust is the ultimate
metaphor for the destruction inflicted upon societies by political
leaders. Third-reich fascism stands as the ultimate example for
destruction of criminal governments, depending on 3000 year old systems
that support obedience to authority. The holocaust demonstrates how
politicians can rise through power by regulating the institutions,
structures, and businesses of a nation, manipulating a non-thinking,
reality evading populace into becoming m-murders of an innocent minority.
The fall of the World Trade Center is the ultimate metaphor for the
destruction inflicted upon the most productive individuals in society
through the envious hate against capitalism and the related freedoms that
it delivers a modern society. Religious fundamentalism stands as the ultimate
example of the call for force against the rights of the individual and the
hard-earned, self-built values of capitalism. It demonstrates forever
the destructiveness of all religions, governments, social movements, and
philosophies which advocate the use of force against individual values,
especially free-market values, for any so-called higher causes.
Furthermore, that attack epitomizes how capitalism -- according to the
original definition of the term, the first and only system based entirely
on individual voluntary free choice and rights of the individual, free of
rationalized force for any "higher causes" -- is being brought to its knees.
Throughout history and present, that happened less through obvious
violent attacks. Much worse, force-backed governments and bureaucrats are
restricting financial freedom, business freedom, freedom of scientific
research and individual freedoms of property and privacy. Much worse,
religious leaders and followers of all religions including catholicism,
unjustly enforce their traditions and religious laws -- at the cost of
individual freedom, business freedom, and even the freedom of life-saving
science. Much worse, those groups of "socialists" and "environmentalists"
who advocate violence and regulatory force against free capitalism and
private businesses owned by individuals, serve as the necessary "public"
fundament for the crimes of religious and political systems that undermine
happiness and freedom of every human being, every individual on this planet.
What more do both the holocaust and the fall of the World Trade Center have
in common? As long as human perspectives rest on authority, irrationality,
and the support of force for higher causes, both events can repeat at any
time. But the present situation is even worse and more urgent than that.
The concept of the Nuclear-Decision Threshold
The rapid progress of a civilization depends on continuity. At the current
rate of technological progress, it cannot be stopped. If the advancement of
science and technology would be stopped, civilization and its technology
would gradually but fast fall back into a dark age. Not only can there be
no guarantee for religious/government killings to stop in an irrational
civilization. If the problems of irrationality and force for higher causes
are not solved, as progress continues, advanced technology will become
available to irrational and force advocating groups, governments, leaders,
eventually destroying present civilization through the rise of totalitarian
government/religious control. Therefore, protection even with the best
military remedies will ultimately be a vanity operation.
A civilization based on authority, religion and the use of force for higher
causes, is incurable. Personal and global problems within that civilization
cannot be solved. The only remedy is to leave that civilization behind,
abandoning all authorities, religions, and abandoning the support for their
force and control. Today, the urgency of stepping outside of that civilization
is unprecedented. That urgency exists for every individual.
Quoted from http://www.neo-tech.com/advantages/advantage31.html:
The Nuclear-Decision Threshold is the point at which energy, knowledge,
and technology have advanced to where sufficient, man-made energy (e.g.,
nuclear energy) can be generated to physically destroy all life on the
planet. From that point, all civilizations must follow one of two courses:
(1) Proceed in an irrational, altruistic, Platonistic philosophical
system in which initiatory force compels others to support mystical
"higher" causes that feed the bogus livelihoods of neocheaters.
Such systems will eventually lead either to all-out nuclear
warfare[ 9 ] or to a retreat into an anti-technological Dark Ages
in which most knowledge and technology are lost. In either case,
most of the world's population will die and civilization will
perish because of meaningless mysticism being manipulated to give
false power and bogus livelihoods to the value destroyers.
(2) Proceed in (or change to) a rational, business-like,
Aristotelian philosophical system in which initiatory force plays
no role. Such a system allows civilization to safely advance beyond
the Nuclear-Decision Threshold.
Thus, any civilization advancing significantly beyond that
threshold would by nature exist within a rational
Aristotelian/Neo-Tech society. That in turn would mean a
free-market business society from which initiatory force is
eradicated as non-competitive, impotent, and immoral. In any such
advanced society, all forms of mysticism would by nature have been
discredited and discarded as stupid and destructive. Such a
business-minded society would be free of politicians, theologians,
neocheaters, coercive governments, and other usurpers and
parasites. Actions would be based on reality-oriented logic
exercised by free individuals harmoniously, competitively living in
accord with their rational best interests.
[...]
For our own civilization to advance significantly beyond our
current Nuclear-Decision Threshold would require a shift from the
current Platonistic/altruistic philosophical base to a
Aristotelian/Neo-Tech philosophical base [Re: Table 51 in Concept
116, Neo-Tech Reference Encyclopedia].
Chapter 2: Fatalities of organized Religion
An essential part of gaining a wide-scope perspective on the present
civilization, is to fully understand the nature of religious/god beliefs.
Dr. Julian Jaynes' theory of the bicameral mind delivers the understandings
of the root of religion. Quoted from www.neo-tech.com/discovery/nt3.html:
Dr. Jaynes discovered that until 3000 years ago essentially all human
beings were void of consciousness.[ 2 ] Man along with all other
primates functioned by mimicked or learned reactions. But, because of
his much larger, more complex brain, man was able to develop a
coherent language beginning about 8000 B.C. He was then guided by
audio hallucinations. Those hallucinations evolved in the right
hemisphere of the brain and were "heard" as communications or
instructions in the left hemisphere of the brain (the bicameral or
two-chamber mind). ...In effect, human beings were super-intelligent
but automatically reacting animals who could communicate by talking.
That communication enabled human beings to cooperate closely to build
societies, even thriving civilizations.
Still, like all other animals, man functioned almost entirely by an
automatic guidance system that was void of consciousness -- until about
1000 B.C. when he was forced to invent consciousness to survive in the
collapsing bicameral civilizations. ...Today, man's survival still depends
on his choice of beneficially following his own consciousness or
destructively following the voices of external "authorities".
[...]
* Except for schizophrenics, people today no longer hallucinate the
voices that guided bicameral man. Yet, most people are at least
partly influenced and are sometimes driven by the remnants of the
bicameral mind as they seek, to varying degrees, automatic
guidance from the mystical "voices" of others -- from the
commanding voices of false external "authorities".
[...]
* Religions and governments are rooted in the nonconscious bicameral
mind that is obedient to the "voices" of external "authorities" --
obedient to the voice of "God", gods, rulers, and leaders.
[...]
* Essentially all religious and most political ideas today survive
through those vestiges of the obsolete bicameral mind. The
bicameral mind seeks omniscient truth and automatic guidance from
external "authorities" such as political or spiritual leaders --
or other "authoritarian" sources such as manifested in idols,
astrologers, gurus. Likewise, politicians, lawyers, psychiatrists,
psychologists, professors, doctors, journalists and TV anchormen
become "authoritarian voices".
Religion, a remnant of man's historical dependence on external guidance,
became a destructive force, as some learned to instrumentalize it smartly for
their own goals. These people, the Neocheaters, use the urge for authority
and guidance to further their own goals. Neocheaters become authorities by
proclaiming their own so-called "higher causes", using the fundament of
established traditions and beliefs -- such as religion -- to control people.
Relentlessly, they must establish social systems backed by force and threats.
By rationalizing force, they control societies by support of the majority.
Relentlessly, they must attack the productive, the free, the good. Only by
demonizing their own victims, they are able to control and drain them.
By condemning human emotions, and happiness, and by inventing the
original sin to create false guilt, christianity has once brought down
humanity into the dark ages -- hundreds of years of unnecessary suffering
and being drained by a selected few manipulative leaders. See:
http://www.neo-tech.com/advantages/advantage33.html
Similarly, islamistic leaders are draining and controlling populaces for
hundreds of years through oppression of women, happiness, individuality
and individual opinions. Using the tools of every religion, selfless
sacrifice and altruism, they manipulate mystic followers into giving
their life for holy wars. Enforcing their oppressive religious laws,
they still keep billions of individuals locked down in the dark ages.
Similarly, by condemning the values of progress and science, today's
christian fundamentalism and the religious right in western countries seek
to attack, regulate and then drain the most important new science of the
21st century: Biotechnology. They use their own arbitrary higher cause,
christian "ethic", to exert force against individuals and their organizations
and companies, banning cloning, stem-cell and other research as well as
life-saving drugs and treatments, causing unnecessary suffering.
Death is an everyday companion of people who accept an unfree society full
of afterlife delusions. Conscious people in a free and rational society,
however, never have to accept the death-is-inevitable dogmas. Only conscious
beings can understand the concept of evolution and their own biological
origin. Only consciousness can grasp and then control the laws of nature.
Wherever oppression and self-deceptions do not exist, the progress of science
naturally exists, as shown since the end of the dark ages. Many people agree
that science could be eventually sophisticated enough to understand and
control all biological processes of life. Without the rise of religions and
their kings, without the dark ages, today's science would long have gone
beyond that point. With oppression and mystic beliefs eliminated, free science
would quickly rise to solve all "insolvable" problems of the dark past.
Equally, with acceptance of scientific reality and rejection of all mystic
non-reality, with the need for a mystic afterlife eliminated, the destructive
manipulations of all religions world-wide would perish.
See: New Perspectives on Unlimited Longevity,
http://secretcodes.org/life/index.html
Chapter 3: Initiation of Force -- The Problem
The Problem
All force of the state hurts the individual. With no right,
all forced regulations and bureaucracy of governments
restrict the freedoms of the individual for higher causes.
Governments and religions share the same origin. They arose
from man's historical dependency on authority. Everyone who
unnecessarily acknowledges and supports that authority in the
modern world, helps those neocheaters in power to drain and
oppress the innocent and most valuable -- but ultimately
drain and oppress essentially any individual.
The only legitimate function of government is the protection
of its citizens from force and fraud. All other functions,
regulations, enforced traditions and social norms, are tools
implemented by force that only serve those in power. None of
them generate any net benefit for society or individuals.
The destruction of violent murderous groups is obvious. However,
the force of the state and its institutions destroys slowly and
silently, killing ten thousands, while making many millions suffer.
Systems of such armed bureaucracies can work unnoticed in their
own countries. However, their slow, steady destruction is obvious
when used against other countries. Measures such as the unjustified
enforcing of trade restrictions and embargos in foreign countries
work much like the futile drug war, much like the regulations of
small businesses. They create problems where none exist. They create
chaos, poverty and suffering that leads to broad opposition in
foreign societies, delivering totalitarian governments all the
tools needed to broadly escalate conflicts and oppression.
Using rationalized force to fight poverty hurts the poorest
the most. Taking half of the capital of all individuals and
businesses by force through taxation and mandatory government
programs leads to a continual, artificial inflation. In a free
economy, prices for everything, including everyday goods, would
drop sharply, leading to much more prosperity even for the
poorest in society.
Using rationalized force to fight loss and to implement
"social justice" creates m unemployment and economic decline.
Regulating companies and employment terms -- private, volitional
contracts -- leads to increasing control of business, and mostly
small business, while big business can handle such regulations
and its costs through capital and corruption-creating government
alliance. Without government-imposed minimum wages, small
businesses could rise, competitively employing mes of people
at minimum costs, while remaining financially profitable.
Without business regulations, an army of small businesses could
rise, growing fast and steadily, continually improving economy,
standards of living, and income for their employees.
Using rationalized force to implement public compulsion schooling
destroys the potential of our children, their freedom, their
potential for long-term happiness. It destroys the minds of
tomorrow's geniuses of society. Furthermore, education in an
inefficient, uncompetitive government schooling system drives the
majority of children toward frustration, laziness, and criminality.
Using rationalized force to wage a war against drugs creates
unnecessary suffering and mes of new drug victims. More than
50% of the today's prisoners in the US are political prisoners,
indicted for the personal use of substances labeled by
the government. "Protecting people from themselves" is a "higher
cause", used as a prime tool for imposing regulations that give
governments increasing control. Trading and consuming harmful drugs
are not objective crimes, at least as long as they don't involve
force or fraud. They are victimless crimes. Criminalizing substances
inevitably only leads to higher prices. When drug prices skyrocket,
drug trade becomes highly profitable, and the creation of new
addicts becomes a major source of income for existing addicts.
Similarly any ideas that are called socialist, cause net harm
and destruction whenever regulation, force, threat of force, or
fraudulent maipulations must be applied for that idea to work.
(Ref.: An in-depth look at socialism, http://secretcodes.org/social.html)
Using rationalized force to "protect the consumers" from making
the wrong choices for themselves, by regulating and restricting
free businesses, ultimately inflicts the most of all destruction
upon individuals and causes death. Quoted from
http://www.neo-tech.com/advantages/advantage90.html:
Consider, for example, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA): That
bureaucracy has been responsible for the premature death of many thousands
of people through its arbitrary, forced banning of such life-saving,
free-choice discoveries as the cyclamate artificial sweetener. The
palatable cyclamates effectively replaced the deadly poison of sugar to
reduce caloric/carbohydrate intake, obesity ailments, diabetes,
heart-attack deaths for millions of people.
Such FDA value destructions serve only to satisfy some value-destroying
bureaucrat's need to feel important, to feel unearned power through
destruction of human lives and values.
Also, the arbitrary banning or controlling of life-saving products such as
non-toxic pesticides, herbicides, food preservatives and additives, new
drugs and medicines has caused death and suffering on mive scales. In
addition, FDA regulations on drug research and marketing retard or prevent
the development of many life-benefitting, life-saving drugs, medicines, and
devices while increasing research and development costs to prohibitive
levels. Effective cancer cures, for example, would certainly have been
developed years ago if research and business were free from regulations
and controls. For, such freedom allows aggressive individuals and
companies to openly pursue the full profit and achievement potential in
discovering and marketing effective cures for cancer, AIDS, and other
diseases.
Even more important, FDA regulations block the required risk taking,
incentive, and business freedom required for rapid development of human
biological immortality. [Re: See Neo-Tech V]
The blocking of human progress along with m suffering and death are the
natural results of government force. And government agencies are the
instruments of such force. The essences of agencies such as the BATF, EPA,
FDA, FTC, INS, IRS, OSHA, and the SEC are always destructive and their
intentions are never good. Such agencies costing billions of dollars each
year serve only to harm productive individuals and society. Indeed, those
life-depriving agencies are subtle death machines that are directly and
indirectly responsible for more suffering and deaths than all wars of
history. (Wars are also government sponsored.) Throughout history most
governments with their use of force, fraud, and coercion begin as
"legalized" protection rackets and always end as destructive engines of
crime and death. Such governments operate under the rationalizations of
protection, altruism, the social "good", and "higher" causes.
Agencies such as the EPA and FDA often carry out their destruction through
dishonest ertions. They ert, for example, that DDT or cyclamates
might be "bad" for the ecology or cause cancer in animals. Then they
expand their power with a -creating bureaucracy to control or ban such
substances. Usually those agencies hide their dishonesties with non
sequitur "facts". They often manufacture unscientific data developed from
spurious research to "prove", for example, that use of cyclamates might
cause cancer in humans: Research on feeding megadoses of cyclamate diet
sweetener to rats indicated that humans could experience bladder
irritation or even tumors if they drank the equivalent of 700 bottles of
diet soft drinks per day over an extended period of time. When, in fact,
that amount of water alone (to say nothing of the immediately fatal
amounts of sugar in less than 100 bottles of non-diet soda) would fatally
break down the kidneys in human beings.
Still, the FDA used those non-sequitur, rat-feeding data to ert that
cyclamates can be cancer-producing in human beings. The FDA then demanded
that the producers prove that cyclamates do not cause cancer. Since a
negative cannot be proven, the government neocheaters subsequently used
their dishonest, non-sequitur data to ban the sale of cyclamates without
any scientific evidence of harm to a single human being. At the same time,
those neocheaters purposely ignored the wide-ranging, beneficial,
life-saving effects of that artificial sweetener.
The FDA, EPA, or any other government agency never honestly attempts to
prove their ertions. Rather, those agencies demand that the producers
disprove their ertions. Their demands to disprove ertions or
accusations contradict the concepts of honesty, objective law, and
justice. Indeed, to demand proof of a negative undermines honesty by
shifting the burden of proof away from the source making accusations (the
neocheaters) to their victims (the value producers).
Without the burden-of-proof standard, government and religious neocheaters
avoid the responsibility to prove their ertions and accusations.
Without the burden-of-proof standard, neocheaters are not accountable to
honesty. Without that accountability to honesty, professional mystics and
neocheaters can continue to usurp power and bogus livelihoods through
fraud, deception, and force.
Theists use that same arbitrary, anti-intellectual standard in erting
the existence of God. Unable to back their ertions with proof, they
expect nonbelievers to prove that God does not exist. But that
proving-a-negative ploy is intellectually untenable and undermines the
protector of honesty, which is: the burden of proof always rests on the
one making an ertion or accusation.
Chapter 4: Establishment of Objective Law -- The Solution
What is objective law? Objective law is a principle that exists
independently from any philosophy or political position. It represents
the only principle universally applicable to fairly judge any action.
Only objective law works by prohibiting the initiation of force, thereby
protecting all rights of the individual, each and every right, while at
the same time making it impossible for anyone to abuse any rights to
restrict rights of others. It is based on the Constitution of the Universe
(Quoted from http://www.neo-tech.com/advantages/advantage83.html):
The Constitution
Article 1: No person, group of persons, or government may initiate
force, threat of force, or fraud against the person or property
of any individual.
Article 2: Force may be morally and legally used only in defense
against those who violate Article 1.
Article 3: No exception shall ever exist to Articles 1 & 2.
The Neo-Tech Constitution rests on six axioms:
1. Values exist only relative to life.
2. Whatever benefits a living organism is a value to that organism.
Whatever harms a living organism is a disvalue to that organism.
3. The basic value against which all values are measured is the
conscious individual.
4. Morals relate only to conscious individuals.
5. Immoral actions arise from individuals choosing to harm others
through force, fraud, deception, coercion -- or from individuals
choosing to usurp, attack, or destroy values earned by others.
6. Moral actions arise from individuals choosing to benefit others
by competitively producing values for them.
How would the Neo-Tech Constitution be enforced? Through (1)
self-defense/deterrent forces and (2) organized ostracizing systems
...Effective ostracisation is a much more powerful mechanism for
justice, restitution, and deterrent than any form of force. And the
severest, fully integrated ostracisation can eventually deliver
capital punishment through suicide.
Initiation of force includes the use of violence, compulsion, regulation,
theft, fraud, or intimidation by threat, direct or legislative, by any
individual or any group, for any other reasons than immediate self-defense
of an individual, group, or population from force as defined above.
Unjustified are also all victimless crimes, actions that are criminalized by
governments (and religions) for higher causes, but which do not harm any
individual. Victimless "crimes" which do not depend on force and fraud
against others, include: drug abuse, any ual actions between consenting
adults, opting out of any government "duties", including taxes, public
insurances, and public schooling, and suicide.
From on an objective viewpoint, real crimes and victimless crimes are
easy to distinguish. While many parts of the civil law are designed to
protect and financially compensate the direct victim of a de-facto crime,
most if not all parts of penal law are designed to enforce political
policies and regulations, violations of which never hurt any real persons,
groups or businesses. They are designed to give an "authority" the power
to prosecute an individual with means of force. Any such actions are immoral,
as even in response to crimes, the only moral use of force is to enforce
compensation of victims and future protection/self-defense.
Moreover, there are no natural duties, such as the arbitrary, state imposed
"duties" of military service, taxes, or mandatory registration with various
government offices. Individuals only carry self-responsibility for themselves
and their own, volitional actions, including speech, and the results.
Implementation of the solution
"The oppressor has nothing more than the power you confer upon him to destroy
you. Where has he acquired enough eyes to spy upon you if you do not provide
them yourselves? How can he have so many arms to beat you with if he does not
borrow them from you? The feet that trample down your cities, where does he
get them if they are not your own? How does he have any power over you except
through you? How would he dare ail you if he had not cooperation from you?"
-- Etienne de la Boétie, A Discourse of Voluntary Servitude
Abandon your support of organized religion. Abandon support and tolerance of
any group that justifies the use of force, threat of force, or force-backed
laws for any causes other than reactive self-defense. Start today.
Appendix: Some related sites
http://www.golshan.com
http://www.free-market.net
http://www.givemeliberty.org
http://www.globalthink.com
http://www.localgroup.net
http://www.neo-tech.com
http://www.secretcodes.org
http://www.secularhumanism.org
http://www.sepschool.org
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