States are Not Sentient Beings

(Originally published on VoluntaryJapan.com)

They do not act. They have not brains. The “state” or a “country” or the “government” is an abstraction that literally cannot and does not act. Only individuals act. So if we want to define a state or government properly, we must call them what they are: groups of individuals acting more or less in concert for certain ends.

“Iraq wants to attack America.” To me, this sounds as idiotic as saying “Every individual in Iraq wants to kill every individual in America.”

This obviously couldn’t be further from the truth, but it’s the type of myth politicians and bankers and cultic “chosen/elite” string-pullers want you to believe. It keeps them in power as a mythic juggernaut called “government,” and you being a retard servant believing in their divine right to rule over you. However said divine right might be euphemized to keep with the times. Oh yeah, “democracy.”

We’re all — they’re all — individuals. View them as you would any other psychotic individual that robs and kidnaps and rapes and murders his non-violent peers, because this is exactly what “THUH GUHVERMINT” is and does.

Please stop believing the myth.