People have a tendency to think that politicians are important. However, politicians don't do anything of importance. Their perceived importance rests solely on the belief that they are important.
This can be illustrated by asking ourselves what politicians do that matter in our everyday lives. When we note down the answers to this, we see that the list can be divided into positive and negative things. However, on closer inspection, we discover that the positive things can all be provided privately.
If we were to rid ourselves of politicians, we would solve a long list of problems without any other cost than the expense associated with the privatization of public services that we want to keep. Keeping in mind that all types of taxation would disappear together with the politicians, the resources available to us would be considerable.
To see this all the more clearly, we need to think in terms of issues local to ourselves, and think of external issues as problems that are local to others. This is to avoid muddling our thinking with issues that don't matter to us personally.
For example: I'm personally unaffected by border crossings in Texas, so I defer this problem to others. A large and uncontrolled influx of foreigners is no doubt troublesome to those who bear the brunt of it, but I'm equally convinced that these problems can be solved privately. Turning off public programs that attract the most parasitic elements among immigrants is sure to reduce the problem. Whatever immigration that remains will be people willing to make their way in life through productive work, and I'm sure local entrepreneurs have ideas on how to utilize this. We don't need to delve any deeper into such problems, because they are local to other people who in turn are the right people to deal with whatever crisis there may be.
This leaves us with local issues only, and we discover that these can be handled privately with the resources freed up by the abolishment of taxation and bureaucracy:
At the family level, most people can take care of themselves, including education, healthcare and old age care.
Zooming out to the local level, there're issues related to security, roads, sewage and garbage. This too is best sorted out locally. Much of it is primarily an issue for local businesses. It's in their interest to maintain roads and security for the neighborhoods they serve. As for the poor, private charities can take care of those unable to take care of themselves, and a free labor market will provide entry level employment to help people take care of themselves.
Larger regions may need defense against organized crime, including war. That too can be dealt with privately through security companies.
Law and law enforcement can be handled privately by insurance companies working together with security companies. Such a system would give people the option to change the laws they abide by, simply by changing the insurance company they use. It will be like moving to Switzerland or any other place we may wish to live simply by changing our subscription.
Seen in this light, the emphasis on politics as somehow important to our everyday lives comes across as contrived. There's simply no reason to spend much time on politics, because the solutions to our everyday problems are not found in politics. They are found locally in our everyday interactions with friends, relatives and acquaintances.
Our belief in political solutions is an illusion, carefully maintained through propaganda and indoctrination. The purpose of this is to prevent us from seeing the obvious:
The hierarchy of levels from family and up reveals the strategy that we can adopt to rid ourselves of the state. We don't have to fight the state head on. Rather, we start with our family affairs and work our way up the hierarchy. Every one of us can untangle ourselves from the state without informing anybody about our actions. We can cut down on taxes by positioning ourselves with this as a high priority goal. We can similarly cut down on our dependency on bureaucrats and state provided services.
The benefits are immediate, and there's no sudden change to our environment. Everything continues as normal. However, the state will increasingly need to cut down on its services due to diminishing tax revenues. But that's not a problem. The services that are lost can be replaced by private solutions. The demise of the state happens in parallel with the rise of the sovereign individual. Power and control is transferred from bureaucrats to private individuals, and nothing of value is lost in the process.
The unwinding of the state becomes in this way an organic process. We don't have to organize a resistance. We don't have to worry about possible problems at the fringes. Everything is sorted out as we go, and we reap the benefits right away.
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