Nov 8, 2011

The Free Domain, Stefan Molyneux, or "That ye be not deceived"

There deserves to be written much more on the subject, but I have a job and an employer that expects me to get stuff done.  So, here's what I have:

There is something very appealing, but insidious, about Stefan Molyneux's message.  Stefan is a leader of the free market anarchist movement (at least that is what I will call it).

I have listened to perhaps 5-10 hours of his messages (that ought to be enough to form an informed opinion), and I think that anybody who listens to him must understand clearly: He is an anarchist, a Godless ally for the forces of Chaos, chasing an ideal as pernicious, subversively attractive, and impossible as the Communists themselves. (Perhaps this is why the anarchists and communists are allied now with the globalists, nazis and radical islamists -- all united to destroy the last bastion of freedom.)  Only, if you remove the association that was  established by the people to preserve the liberties of the people, then what will replace it?  Violence, crime, enslavement and force love a vacuum.

1. If people without government create prosperity,
2. If the people had abolished their government in favor of anarchy because the government (by the people) was too corrupt to protect the interests of the people and used force to enslave the people,
3. Then, when there is prosperity, and *all of * the people in the world have not ceased to do wickedly and exercise force,
4. Who will now protect the prosperity and liberty.  The people themselves?  Well, true. But they must organize themselves to stand against standing armies and organized thieves.  And what do we call such an organization, but a governance by the people -- an establishment of government for the common good, which would necessarily be a representative form, must have some continuity and consistency, and rules for its own existence.

I do not believe that God desires anarchy for his children.

True, our national government is rotten.  But to destroy it is dangerous folly.  Reform it.  True, we have an uphill battle to reform it.  First, we must reform our people.

'Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.' - John Adams

If the problem is that our elected officials are corrupt, then the fundamental problem is that we the people are corrupt.  If the people are corrupt, then no form of government (or absence of it) will cure the corruption.

We the people MUST REPENT of our PERSONAL moral failures.  We the people must THEN become engaged in our communities and with the political process.

In short: I have found, and I want my friends and family to know, that if you seek truth and light, Stefan has only philosophies of men to offer. There are better sources to make the arguments that need to be made.