The dumbest objections against statelessness #9 "What guarantees do you have...?" A common and baffling objection to statelessness is the appeal to “guarantees.” Statist apologists **demand to have guarantees** that, if we were to abolish government, no evil warlord or dictator would suddenly enslave everyone… as if the existence of the state ever guaranteed anything. https://sotiris.substack.com/p/state-vs-statelessness I’ve said it before. Every single objection against…
What conservatives don't seem to get about liberation: Degeneracy flourishes where it is a taboo Conservatives and progressives alike are both authoritarian statists; they just obsess over different petty politics. They both agree that a totalitarian state is the answer to their problems and that the state has every moral imperative to enforce morality on people, as long as it’s THEIR brand of morality. **Conservatives and progressives only disagree on the flavour of…
Western Civilisation's Problem: Do not feel entitled to things you have yet to earn The Westerner is being punished for forgettinghis values and principles. Instead of acknowledging his fault, he demands — with infuriating entitlement — to regardless keep his cultural sovereignty after renouncing his right to it. Too harsh? Hear me out… https://sotiris.substack.com/p/what-are-western-values-anyway **The problem** You might think you honour your culture and the core ideals…
"You're always complaining!" When ingratitude is dignity No, I won’t be grateful for the state’s micro-concessions; pretentious, meaningless performances to appease the naive masses, and to regain their misplaced trust. **The gratitude of the slave** You’ve heard it before: that with every concession the government makes, we should be thankful and not whine and complain. Onlydoomerswith a fetish for misery can’t ever be satisfied, right? https://sotiris.substack.com/p/doomer…
Incentive-based order without government: Morality, efficiency, and order cannot result from threats The fundamental difference betweenstate and statelessnessis the method they use to achieve social order: either via threat or incentive. https://sotiris.substack.com/p/state-vs-statelessness **Carrot and stick** The**state is threat-based**, which means that every single one of its laws and regulations is enforced only via the threat of violence… from an unaccountable…
Statism is the New Flat Earth: “But without government, wouldn’t everything fall off the earth?” Imagine how the ancient world treated those who perceived the earth as a sphere. They were ridiculed, scorned, and even persecuted for a claim that is easily observable and provable by anyone with nothing but their senses and (un)common sense. The objections would go like this: “*How ridiculous! If the Earth were round, wouldn’t everything on the bottom part just fall off it?*”…
The dumbest objections against statelessness #10 "But what if I'm attacked?" - Objecting incentive over threat In the post ‘Incentive-based order without government,’ I argued that**the encouragement of desired behaviours is not the same as discouraging undesired ones**. https://sotiris.substack.com/p/incentive-based-order-without-government For discouraging aggression, there is something called FAFO, which is neither a threat nor an incentive; it’s a warning and a…
The price of redemption: Your Pyrrhic escape from the false self The most painful part of fending off your demons to rediscover your true, innocent self is the realisation that the best people were there for you all along… and all you did was hurt them, shun them, betray them. Your demons - those self-hating voices - were nothing other than the personification of your trauma, an allegory for your abuses, subconsciously created by your innocent inner child to make sense of…
Anti-antinatalism: Why we hate antinatalists and what it says about us Children are a blessing, greater than most of us deserve. But even those who treasure children may decide not to have them. Don’t be too harsh to condemn. Hear me out. **Generational suicide** Antinatalism is a form of suicide. It’s the refusal to continue life on a generational, rather than individual, level. And we hate suicides, don’t we? In my articleon suicide, I touched on the instinctive vitriol we…
'Crawling' by Linkin Park... The chilling meaning behind a masterpiece of artistic expression The song ‘Crawling’ by Linkin Park is perhaps one of the most accurate descriptions of the false self; lyrically, musically, and visually through the music video. It describes something “*crawling in my skin*,” the feeling of the false self, a foreign entity physically transforming you into something you’re not… https://youtu.be/Gd9OhYroLN0 If the concept of the false self resonates…
The Allegory of 'Oldboy': The prison of the false self, and the cost of freedom come late The 2013 movie ‘Oldboy’ is not a story about revenge. The theme of revenge is just a plot device to lubricate the story. The true meaning is far deeper. This is a story, manifested by the unconscious of the writers, about the false self. The movie begins with the protagonist being a total douchebag, an accurate description of the corrupt false self, which has completely enveloped,…
"Just be yourself..." What does it actually mean? The simplest yet hardest-to-apply advice It’s insulting how the most vapid advice, “just be yourself”, always comes to you when “being yourself” clearly isn’t working. What the heck does it even mean to “be yourself” anyway? You’ve been there before… You attend a social event, or a job interview, or you’re preparing to go talk to your crush. You want to make a good impression, but you’re troubled by a strong suspicion that…
4 reasons to hate the childless There’s a prevailing strawman that treats all childless adults as antinatalists, the latter being the ideology that having children is unethical. The childless aren’t necessarily antinatalists. Many childless people indeed cherish children so much that they’d rather not have them under bad conditions or with the wrong person. This is a mercy to children. Adding insult to injury, there are those (often with a below-replacement number of…
Redefining Civilisation: Barbarians with iPhones and etiquette How we revel in self-aggrandisement when we utter the words “human civilisation”… Nothing could be further from the truth. **Dictionary definition** Civilisation. (noun) — the stage of human social and cultural development and organization that is considered most advanced. Of all the vague definitions, this one takes the cake. What does that even mean? How is “advanced” measured? **Appeal to definition fallacy**…
When people open their hearts to you, listening says more than talking I admire the grandiose hypocrisy of people too eager to self-righteously exclaim, “*I wish he had said something*” after someone takes his own life. Really? He*did*try to say something. But you avoided him and called him “negative”, “pessimistic”, and “whiney”. You complained that he was “complaining” when he just sought scarce compassion and permission to like himself. You told him he was being weak and…
On our cosmic abandonment: The involuntary hubris of desperate theodicy If this reality is the construct of a conscious entity — call it theology orsimulation theory— then there are implications to this apparent cosmic abandonment of an open-world video game with the added cruelty of NPCs too aware of their existence, yet denied answers to burning questions: why? https://sotiris.substack.com/p/the-case-for-the-simulation-theory If this is indeed an absurd reality randomly…
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