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10/03/2005 Entry: "Animal Kingdom"



Animal Kingdom

Elephants, donkeys, ostriches, sheeple, libertarians...

Would you say that voting and, in the case of the United States, choosing between two animals, is a national liberation movement? I wouldn't! Especially since the voters do not vote for ostriches!

And like domesticated birds they feel reasonably well [though a bit less lately] in the corral into which, as wild animals (individuals), they have been caught. Also with the help of libertarian lassos (spell it with upper case L , if you want). Like animals, they stick to territory. And as in the case of the uSA, the territory is rather large (and rich in natural resources, including hurricanes, sorry), the territorial addiction is solid. Thus they put up with that nonsense that every individual born, living, residing, travelling in such a territory, including those outside the territory, but dealing with the inmates, plus those unwilling to deal like in Iraq, should abide by the same set of laws set by others. They only have a choice as to which colours the feathers should have that their Supreme Commander Fowl are wearing. Never a real change, only changing and returning fashion trends, as superficial and dishonest as Max Factor "Pancake" makeup. All made up, all cover-up!

National liberation movements, national liberation fronts or with whatever military names and cosmetic they like to beautify themselves, so abundant in the past and now, are normally initiated and pursued by those who know least how to create abundance, extreme left-wingers. In spite of tons of good reasons to be extremely dissatisfied with the conditions for them in the to them foreign national corral or coop they are cooped up in, all those Kurds, Chechens, Basques etc. are less imprisoned and AbuGhraibed by the nations they consider foreign than by their own flawed ideas.

Secession is good, but not from a territory in most cases and not from a monopolist legal system, if it's only to become a transfer1 of the despised one, falling again into the trap of territorial despotism and start all over again. Or do history books have to be filled with all that crap? Paper is too precious to be wasted for such an ineffective perpetuum mobile. Secession is good if it allows, for as many as spontaneously form (and maybe dissolve again), voluntary and very different and diverse legal communities to exist and function peacefully towards each other within the same territory (like Catholics and Protestants in Germany, unlike in Northern Ireland). And there should be only one: the Earth! Let's shoot those imperialists, nationalists, monopolists, border Nazis, Patriots and other despots to the moon! What a paradise it will become there for real estate agents...

And while I'm at it, legitimate territorial instinct only as far as the "my home is my castle" goes, private property. Man made one. Animals living on the same territory, let's say wild cats or dogs, mark their "territory", but that is not in any sense as exclusive as when a Coast Guard takes a leak on the shore. It allows dogs and cats and rabbits and squirrels, blackbirds and the whole of Noah's Ark to each live quite differently in its own "panarchy" within the same territory. Some individuals of one animal panarchy, but far from all, will "sometimes" kill and eat an individual from some other animal "legal" community, but that's simply because, in the view of our human more advanced evolutionary and civilized state, God has done its job VERY badly. What can you expect from an absentee landlord/lord/Lord (upper or lower case, not unlike with libertarian and Libertarian...)? Not much. In the best case that you are left alone. Left in peace. That peace which is almost perfect within one animal panarchy, totally unlike in our human nation states. With their murders and executions and the Draft. All in all, the statistics put us in a very bad position on the chart, compared to animals here. And without the slightest need, unlike for some animals.

Therefore, everything that is not created by human hand or mind, the gift of nature, the natural resources, the simple ground on which we stand and walk and work and love, should equally, "communistically", belong to each living human individual. The animals can have it for free (they rarely ask). There is such abundance without our artificial allocations of quota, destructions through wars and other human crimes and stupidity, without our present putting so much off limits, and without all that tribute asking. Animals and the plants give us so much in return. Each parcel of land and natural resources on it or underlying it should be leased from and paid to the whole of humanity2 for a price determined on the market. This is the ideal to be reached, but it has to be done in many practical steps. We will never solve the problems of the world, which are ours, if we do not start with this most basic one among all and if we do not stop to ideologically either be wholesale on the right or wholesale on the left. The salvaging truth is a synthesis of both approaches, according to the requirements of the problem at hand. Provided the self-ownership of the individual is respected. And freedom both as an end and as a means is the guideline.

To make exterritoriality and panarchism work, we need in common only a world-wide consensus on the most basic natural individual rights, expressed by the Zero Aggression Principle, the Equal Freedom of All, Reciprocity, the respect for each individual's life, corporeal intactness and self-ownership. And all our thugs who after all do not want to board that space ship to the moon or Mars, those with a cop disposition, would finally find a legitimate playground, strongly ensuring this respect and NOTHING ELSE, so that we may finally love them!

When will our voting sheeple and voting libertarians-cum-Libertarians or a combination of the two finally drop their blinkers/blinders and illusions and jump on the panarchist, polyarchist, personarchist train? Are they satisfied with the little they might reach through politics, losing their and our time, while the lemmings like floods blindly and boldly march on to cataclysm?

Fly the coop!

1 décalque in French, Abziehbild in German, apsebillt in Luxemburgish
2 from the new embryo to the wise old head exhaling the last breath on the deathbed; a monthly distribution in equal parts to all living humans of the whole proceeds of that land rent would also make obsolete the need for welfare, unemployment insurance and the like, as the basic needs, as nature intended, would be covered; those who want a higher standard of living will work, earn in addition and pay insurance; an important side effect will be that who happens, through no merit of his own, to sit on an oil well, be it the Sultan of Brunei, a Bush or a Shiite in Basra etc. will not be able to claim it privately without compensation to the rest of the world, like now; and this revolutionary change alone will make all wars obsolete!


[Animal Kingdom versus]

Animal Farm!

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