Totalitarian Delusions

There's a widespread belief among ordinary people and politicians alike that laws conjured into existence by fiat are no different than natural laws. Once declared, the machinery of the state will ensure the success of such decrees. However, this has never never been the case. The more a statuary law strays from natural law, the more it leads to unforeseen consequences, counterproductive reactions, subversion and revolt.

The only reason many statuary laws don't fail completely is the belief that such laws are enforceable, and that there's no way to circumvent them. Many list things in their tax returns that the state cannot possibly know about in the false belief that this will make them safe from scrutiny. However, to reveal our every little secret to the state is about as stupid as it's possible to get. Once they know all our secrets, they have all the more things to point at and tax even more.

The same goes for arbitrary laws related to our personal freedoms. They cannot possibly know all that's going on in society, and even if they did, who's going to enforce the law? There are not enough people in the state apparatus to police everybody, so the state has to focus its resources on a few cases and let everybody else go.

Key to personal freedom is to think rationally about what the state can and cannot do, and to act in such a way that we're either technically within the law, or operating in an environment outside of their control.

Keeping a low profile is a good idea, as is being on friendly terms with our neighbors. Most laws are vigorously enforced for a while before they they're largely forgotten, so all we need to do to get around them is to be patient. There's no need for parades and demonstrations.

Statutory laws have loopholes for the simple reason that they are not natural, and this can always be taken advantage of. Truckers in Canada are required by law to inject themselves with a mystery serum in order to do cross border business. But that doesn't prevent them from clogging up streets.

Saying that truckers are terrorists for being opposed to the mystery serum doesn't make them terrorists. It merely replaces one difficulty with another. The tyrants in power are forced to list all the things that apply to their laws, and that results in some mighty long lists and/or some vague wordings. Either way, it's not that hard to find loopholes.

Once the tyrants go full totalitarian, they must abandon the notion of rule by law so that they can simply declare individuals guilty without any further excuse than that they acted in ways undesirable to them. But who's going to go along with that, and how is this making anything easier for them? There will still be ways around the system.

The idea that totalitarian control is possible is nothing but a delusion. We don't have to worry that we'll end up in totalitarian hell, because it cannot be done. All they can do is to make life difficult and miserable for a lot of people, us included. But they cannot stop us. Freedom cannot be declared illegal any more than gravity can be declared non-existent.

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