ChipTuner on Nostr: Right now... I might go as far as to say Natural Law is the only law... I truely ...

Right now... I might go as far as to say Natural Law is the only law... I truely believe culture is upstream from politics and therefor government. Corruption is an outlier, a big one nonetheless, but it's almost mutually exclusive imo.

I draw the line somewhere around a large state is required, and balk against the idea of questioning it. Even people my age won't consider the idea "What if the state wasn't there". The irrational fear that all of a sudden rational people will wake up and choose violence and rape your children in the street before sundown. Like have you considered the possibility that maybe _we as a people_ the ones who make up society actually have the _power_ here. Our lives aren't suddenly going to fall apart if the state _as it exists_ just disappeared. We always recover in times of freedom.

People, tribes, communities will still organize as they have always done. Recognizing that (at least our) government does not function even close to how you think it does, or how they tell us it does is what I harp on. Realizing that our wealth has been extracted to reduce our access to resources, to become more dependent (whether intentional or not, that's the reality) on the state is important too. The state became the safety blanket and loss aversion prevents that from changing.

IMO The state (Deceleration of Independence in particular) was supposed to protect natural law, full stop. You violate natural law, we don't agree, action can be taken, you no longer align with our values, gtfo. That goes for the state, more than it does the people - for historical reasons imo, ask Jefferson and Hamilton. So I don't know what I am, but blindly accepting that things should be the way they are and we shouldn't question them is a problem imo. Because what we have now is not what we were sold. I don't believe in deconstruction or whatever the socialists called the idea of destroying tradition.

Same goes for capitalism. Suggesting that our economic reality in the west is _capitalism_ **and** that it needs to be replaced is full of bias. My argument is simple psychological observation - given a "should" or "aught", when the rule enforcers aren't looking, what are people going to do in larger quantities. Optimize for that. Turns out goods will be traded with subjective pricing to each party depending on their intentions, there will be competition to sell goats for cows. They will just do this when left alone and ungoverned.