This may come to a shock to some of my readers considering that I'm pro-capitlism, but I'm anti-corpritism. I can explain my views on this in another post, but I'll simply explain through analogy. I'm pro-capitalism and anti-corpritism just like I'm pro-women and anti-feminism.
The reason for this post is that I just found out about the
Whether or not you found this video as funny as I did, there is an underlying message that holds true in the world in which we live. The truth is that people en-mass hold the power to do something. As a marine instructor explains to his recruits in an episode of The Human Weapon,
"There are no Rambos."
To some extent, minarchists and statists are raised to believe in the power of the people, especially in democracies. We are told that we have the power to change the government by voting, protesting, and writing letters (or emails if you're under 65 years old) to our political "leaders."
Now, I'm well aware that voting is a shame so you do not need to send me links to Freedomain Radio or interviews with George Carlin about the subject. However, the fact remains that voting is powerful not because the voters has the ability to choose between the shiniest of two turds, but because every vote legitimizes government control over the citizenry.
A vote is a consent form which the citizen signs without reading the fine print.
The video above hints to this power where fake representatives form Apple try to prevent people from calling their product the iWatch. Apple, like other corporations tend to mimmic the society that created them. Apple began as the rebellious computer company drawing comparisons to 1984 much like the American Revolution was marketed as a war against unsolicited taxation.
And now, much like the United States, Apple has transformed from the rebellious computer company to an overreaching and power hungry entity. The reason why the iWatch video is powerful is that regardless of the power that Apple has in the creation of the product as well as it distribution, people still hold influence when en-mass.
Now, I don't know about you, but I don't really care what the $349.99 watch is called. It's made by Apple, people will buy it. Heck, I might purchase one within the next twelve months. The point that I'm trying to make (and am reluctant to bring home) is that we currently live in an ochlocratic world were the mob legitimates a powerful minority. We can't change this, no matter how much logic, violence, or bribery we attempt. This is why the world is not yet ready for anarchy, for, as Stefan Molyneux put it, "if all the churches in a town were destroyed by an earthquake, the citizens of the town wouldn't all suddenly become atheists."
We, the depressingly few anarchy-capitalists, are not going to change society from within the system. We instead need to work on the local level, improving and informing the people we interact with every day and teach them the values of freedom. Not everyone will listen and it won't happen overnight, but overtime we can achieve our goal. The same is true about the people, objects, places, and ideas we come across everyday. Call things what they are: Apple Watch/iWatch, Taxation/Theft, the flag/ propaganda cloth.
If we seek truth and define the world in truthful terms, we come that much closer to a free society.
-T
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