After 25 years of teaching on the side, I am more convinced than ever self-employment is also about personal transformation. That transformation is best advanced in proportion that there is no state.
Tolstoy:
In the 1900 essay, "On Anarchy", Tolstoy wrote; "The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without Authority, there could not be worse violence than that of Authority under existing conditions. They are mistaken only in thinking that Anarchy can be instituted by a revolution. But it will be instituted only by there being more and more people who do not require the protection of governmental power ... There can be only one permanent revolution—a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man."
It keeps coming back to 1 Samuel 8.
19 But the people refused to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We want a king over us. 20 Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles.”
As long as you want someone else to fight your battles, you are trapped. As long as you want a state, you want others to fight your battles. This is a distortion of the free market, in which others gladly provide for your needs, for which you trade your skills. But with a state, there is no need for personal transformation, and we are all denied the good of your native talents.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
Tolstoy:
In the 1900 essay, "On Anarchy", Tolstoy wrote; "The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without Authority, there could not be worse violence than that of Authority under existing conditions. They are mistaken only in thinking that Anarchy can be instituted by a revolution. But it will be instituted only by there being more and more people who do not require the protection of governmental power ... There can be only one permanent revolution—a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man."
It keeps coming back to 1 Samuel 8.
19 But the people refused to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We want a king over us. 20 Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles.”
As long as you want someone else to fight your battles, you are trapped. As long as you want a state, you want others to fight your battles. This is a distortion of the free market, in which others gladly provide for your needs, for which you trade your skills. But with a state, there is no need for personal transformation, and we are all denied the good of your native talents.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
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