{"id":15266,"date":"2011-11-01T09:48:04","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T16:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=15266"},"modified":"2011-11-01T09:52:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T16:52:00","slug":"the-role-of-information-hiding-in-keeping-all-of-us-enslaved-to-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15266\/the-role-of-information-hiding-in-keeping-all-of-us-enslaved-to-the-state\/","title":{"rendered":"The role of information hiding in keeping all of us enslaved to the state."},"content":{"rendered":"

This is from my book Janio at a Point<\/a>. I wrote this in 1988 as a sort of blueprint to Agorism, anarcho-capitalism. It questions everything, which is why its proscriptions often meet resistance from people who are in love with human freedom except when it’s inconvenient or prevents them from pushing other people around. I would write the book differently today — and I plan to rewrite it before I die — but there is almost nothing I would change in its philosophy.<\/p>\n

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Information Hiding<\/b><\/p>\n

We have looked at a number of the obviously tragic consequences of government, but there are others of which we can take account that are not so obvious. You can call it “beating a dead horse” if you want, a Madness. So be it. I want to make sure that horse stays<\/i> dead…<\/p>\n

All of these non-obvious effects are the result of what I call Information Hiding. We can easily see that government commits<\/i> crimes: it taxes, regulates, conscripts, murders — all in a day’s work. And there is no barrier to our noticing that the state is lousy<\/i> at keeping Crime from occurring and recovering losses. What is not so easy to notice is the way the government, by its crimes, contributes<\/i> to non-governmental crimes…<\/p>\n

This is no absolution. The man who wields a gun deserves<\/i> to be shot. If he is misled by the state into thinking that this is an intelligent solution to the problem of survival, it is still only he<\/i> who is in charge of his brain. It is still only he<\/i> who motivates himself to pick up<\/i> that gun. No matter what “egged him on” and how, it is still only he<\/i> who is acting. If he commits a crime, he is at fault.<\/p>\n

But it is worthwhile to look to the actions of government, to see if they do induce people to commit crimes. I say they do, and, moreover, that the actions of government tend to dilute the value of self-preservation and self-love. Beating a dead horse though it may be, I say that the idea of government is at war with human Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is from my book Janio at a Point. I wrote this in 1988 as a sort of blueprint to Agorism, anarcho-capitalism. It questions everything, which is why its proscriptions often meet resistance from people who are in love with human freedom except when it’s inconvenient or prevents them from pushing other people around. 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