City Governments Ought To Be Abolished, If

Psychologist Nathaniel Branden Speaks Of A Benevolent Sense Of Life Possible To Those With Rational, Productive Values, Vividly Contrasted With The Coercive Parasitic Group-culture Of Mystics And Altruists We Live In, Where People All Around You Seem A Burdensome Annoyance, A Threat To Your Survival. Having Been Told From Childhood That Life Is A Zero-sum Game In Which You Owe Everything To Others, At Some Level You Worry All The Time That Someday The Bastards Will Collect. And Collect They Do, Every April 15th. Why Do You Think They Call It Collectivism?

To Politicians, Solved Problems Represent A Dire Threat - Of Unemployment And Poverty. That's Why No Problem Ever Tackled By The Government Has Ever Been Solved. What They Want Is Lots Of Problems They Can Promise To Solve, So That We'll Keep Electing Them - Or Letting Them Keep Their Jobs In A Bureaucracy Metastasizing Like Cancer.

Lincoln Emancipated Nobody. The Man Freed Not A Single Slave.

Human Rights Are An Aspect Of Natural Law, A Consequence Of The Way The Universe Works, As Solid And As Real As Photons Or The Concept Of Pi. The Idea Of Self- Ownership Is The Equivalent Of Pythagoras' Theorem, Of Evolution By Natural Selection, Of General Relativity, And Of Quantum Theory. Before Humankind Discovered Any Of These, It Suffered, To Varying Degrees, In Misery And Ignorance.

Government Can Only Do Two Things: It Can Beat People Up And Kill Them. Or It Can Threaten To Do So. When It Seems To Be Doing Something Else - For Example, Handing Out Money Or, Say, Surplus Cheese - What's Actually Going On Is That Something Has Been Taken Away From One Set Of Individuals By Deadly Force Or The Threat Of Deadly Force, A Hefty Middleman's Fee Deducted, And Whatever Is Left Thrown To Peasants Delighted To Receive Stolen Goods.