Defiance is the natural offspring of resistance.
Jan 21, 2014 9:29:02 GMT -5
Post by Michael Downing on Jan 21, 2014 9:29:02 GMT -5
avordvet posted this under Tyranny vs Liberty but for those who may not review the entire site I thoiught I would repost it here as well.
westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2014/01/19/defiance-is-the-natural-offspring-of-resistance/
Defiance is the natural offspring of resistance.
It is defiance that puts meat on the bones of resistance.
Resistance takes many forms, it begins in your mind, it begins as something maybe as simple as a gut feeling, realizing, in our case as people under the increasing shadow of tyranny, the form of state “authority” as it exists is not legitimate.
There are a lot of law-abiding people who have been made criminals in the eyes of the State.
A reality that is worth understanding.
In that making law-abiding people into criminals is a very important element of creating systems of control over those same people.
Where people who are free of control are people free to choose how to conduct themselves in every facet of the sphere of their lives they become manifest in their Liberty, and those who are encumbered by limitations imposed upon them in the manner in which they conduct their lives become subjects.
Subjects have two choices: submit and pay tribute to avoid the application of force, which is a force in itself, or via the convenience of having become criminals, enemies of the enemy of their own Liberty, they become a target for liquidation.
Because acts of defiance is testimony to their illegitimacy, the state, its power, and those who constitute the body of this system of control, because of the illegitimate nature of what they are, can not tolerate defiance.
Defiance upsets the balance of power.
Tyranny is a constant crisis that balances on a knifes edge requiring ever more control and tribute in order to offset the instability defiance creates to maintain that balance.
Understanding this reality as legitimate, as legitimate as ones Liberty, is manifold for in this equation lies the means to destroying the power of the state and it’s actors.
It is what you do with this understanding to resist what is illegitimate that is defiance.
After all, would you consider legitimate, an organization crime syndicate that violated the very system of laws it uses to imprison or kill you for violating the same laws in order to impose control to begin with?
Submit?
Or defy it?
westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2014/01/19/defiance-is-the-natural-offspring-of-resistance/
Defiance is the natural offspring of resistance.
It is defiance that puts meat on the bones of resistance.
Resistance takes many forms, it begins in your mind, it begins as something maybe as simple as a gut feeling, realizing, in our case as people under the increasing shadow of tyranny, the form of state “authority” as it exists is not legitimate.
There are a lot of law-abiding people who have been made criminals in the eyes of the State.
A reality that is worth understanding.
In that making law-abiding people into criminals is a very important element of creating systems of control over those same people.
Where people who are free of control are people free to choose how to conduct themselves in every facet of the sphere of their lives they become manifest in their Liberty, and those who are encumbered by limitations imposed upon them in the manner in which they conduct their lives become subjects.
Subjects have two choices: submit and pay tribute to avoid the application of force, which is a force in itself, or via the convenience of having become criminals, enemies of the enemy of their own Liberty, they become a target for liquidation.
Because acts of defiance is testimony to their illegitimacy, the state, its power, and those who constitute the body of this system of control, because of the illegitimate nature of what they are, can not tolerate defiance.
Defiance upsets the balance of power.
Tyranny is a constant crisis that balances on a knifes edge requiring ever more control and tribute in order to offset the instability defiance creates to maintain that balance.
Understanding this reality as legitimate, as legitimate as ones Liberty, is manifold for in this equation lies the means to destroying the power of the state and it’s actors.
It is what you do with this understanding to resist what is illegitimate that is defiance.
After all, would you consider legitimate, an organization crime syndicate that violated the very system of laws it uses to imprison or kill you for violating the same laws in order to impose control to begin with?
Submit?
Or defy it?