Opinion: Personal responsibility better than government

Have you unhitched your wagon from the dying mule of government? If not, why not? It’s not helping you, in spite of the claims of its public relations team, but is holding you back. You could be better without it getting in your way and siphoning off the labor of your hands to benefit itself. More liberty, more wealth, more health, more self-respect.

For many people, talk of the end of political government is crazy. Their ancestors thought any talk of ending slavery -- excuse me, other forms of slavery -- was also crazy. They have a hard time seeing how the world will function without this great evil continuing to devour individual liberty.

One of the favorite go-to excuses of statists against the ethical move of abolishing this cult is the “power vacuum.” If you don’t have a state it will supposedly leave one of these.

Are you leaving a “power vacuum?” No. You are returning the power to where it has always belonged — to each individual who has the natural human right to run his or her own life.

It’s a useful lie if people keep accepting it.

Even in the worst case scenario of this age of political government continuing a few more decades, being ready to take care of yourself in the absence of government will only help you. Not just when government implodes, but today.

The only thing keeping government going is the superstitious belief in it held by too many people. As it fails, over and over again, this belief will start to erode. It can only lie about its failures a certain number of times before the lies stop working. When people stop believing in something that was never real to begin with it stops having any effect on the real world. We are closer to this situation than you might think.

Whether you believe I’m right or wrong doesn’t change the reality -- you need to arrange your life in such a way that you don’t get dragged under if government collapses next month or next year. If it doesn’t, there’s no harm to you, but if it does, you’ll be better off.

Don’t depend on government being there and don’t work for it! There are so many ethical options out there that don’t depend on robbing people and calling it “taxes,” and which don’t require pretending to have a right to run the lives of others. Try some of those.

Farwell’s Kent McManigal champions liberty. Contact him at:

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