Topic: News: The Runner Representing the World

[Chris Ⓐ LeRoux]

Representing himself, is what I would say, but representing the world is far, far superior to representing a "nation", which is just a region of land dominated via the use of aggression and coercion by a legalized terrorist protection racket:


http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/athletics/19225751

[Arturo Gómez]

Interesant, and I add that I think that nations, the same as tribus or feudal system, are only stages in the human evolution.

[TheRedReaper]

Yes, we'll go back to tribes soon enough. Evolution will go full circle.

[Chris Ⓐ LeRoux]

I don't believe humanity will significantly regress but will instead eventually achieve true freedom, anarchy. The black markets, the agorist markets, are steadily infiltrating the government monopolies and replacing them. It is only a matter of time until government goes kaput. There  are simply going to be too many people with too much free flow of information for them to maintain their protection rackets much longer. Black market currencies like bitcoin, for example, are steadily eroding the state's control of all human action as are many other agorist efforts.

[TheRedReaper]

I don't believe humanity will significantly regress but will instead eventually achieve true freedom, anarchy. The black markets, the agorist markets, are steadily infiltrating the government monopolies and replacing them. It is only a matter of time until government goes kaput. There  are simply going to be too many people with too much free flow of information for them to maintain their protection rackets much longer. Black market currencies like bitcoin, for example, are steadily eroding the state's control of all human action as are many other agorist efforts.

Well isn't the world already fairly far down this road? The government (and I'm talking both US and Thailand relevant here for both of us) is merely a tool in which a group of individuals/elites use to exercise control and privilege over others. Law and rights have no real meaning. At the end of the day, these powerful elites do as they wish. In a sense it is anarchy - their anarchy. The death of a constitution will not change how these countries work. After all, in Thailand, the creation of the constitution in 1932 did very little to change things, so why should we assume the destruction of it will have any effect?
 
I think you've just gotten confused and believe there is more order to society than there really is. At the end of the day, the world is one big black market up for utter exploitation by those with the ability to do so. This is already true. How could anything ever make it more truer? Sure, things will shift about a bit. The inability to control information and copyright is one of those things that will change things. But these same elite will once again capitalize on these things eventually, and everything will go full circle. Take freedom of speech for example - American elites use "upholding, protecting and spreading freedom of speech" as an excuse to invade soveriegn nations, topple governments and rake in billions of dollars in profits from it. If this is not capitalizing on the free flow of information, I do not know what is. In the end, most people are either too stupid or too uninterested to know any better, so they are and always will be herded like sheep.

[Chris Ⓐ LeRoux]

Obviously, governments are becoming ever more tyrannical, but this isn't the only measure of progress and regression. They will collapse themselves and humanity will continue moving forward, with setbacks along the way of course.

[TheRedReaper]

Obviously, governments are becoming ever more tyrannical, but this isn't the only measure of progress and regression. They will collapse themselves and humanity will continue moving forward, with setbacks along the way of course.

You really think society can move forward without enforcement from the powerful? I don't want to sound fascist, and I'm not. I'd be quite content living back in the good ol' days, 10,000 BC, if that's what it took to get rid of tyranny. But I have little faith complex social structure and civilization in general can survive without dictatorial leadership (which is roughly what I think most governments are once you unmask them). People are simply too foolish on average, and others will never stop exploiting that.

[Chris Ⓐ LeRoux]

I believe creativity and progress is the result of freedom, not authoritarian idiocy, so, yes indeed, I do believe humanity will flourish once government collapses.