Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Will Most Americans Submit to New World Order?

Dave Hodges just wrote an article "Most Americans Will Submit to the New World Order."
He sent the article to me and I was surprised that a good portion is about me and two personal experiences  (CPS, Guidestones).   But it is ultimately about people needing to stand up together and if the government is allowed to take our guns then it is game over.
I think that there is a point at which most people will resist oppression, but the majority of Americans are simply not at that point yet, but the efforts of the federal government are seemingly trying to find out what that point is by reaching for it. That's not very productive in my mind.

There is a failure here in that people willingly submit to authority. People submit to force, not authority. When the state exists, it thrives through force, either physical or economical. The general population is the recipient of the negative effects of that force, at varying levels, but in a variety of different aspects of daily life, whether it's restrictions on what we can eat, where we can go, what we can buy, how much we can earn for our labor, or what we can say.

From Daniel Bonevac's analysis of positive and negative liberty:
In Rousseau's social contact, then, we surrender everything but get everything back. We give up everything to the community but gain a full share in the results of cooperation and so end up with more than we had before. The general will is not what the community wants but what is in it's interests. The general will, that is, desires not what the community perceives as being in its interests but what is really in its interests. The general will, that is, is the common good. People may be ignorant or deceived; they may not know what is in their own interests. They may vote for a candidate or policy that fails to promote the common good. The vote in such a case does not reflect the general will.
Looking back into history and around the world, it becomes apparent that differing cultures also have varying breaking points. In nations under extreme application of the positive liberty concept, those breaking points are much higher. In societies with negative liberty, those tolerances are much lower. I only wonder how much more Americans will allow themselves to be pushed around by central planners and despots...

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