Voluntary Servitude

[Kat Kanning]

But O good Lord! What strange phenomenon is this? What name shall we give it? What is the nature of this misfortune? What vice is it, or, rather, what degradation? To see an endless multitude of people not merely obeying, but driven to servility? Not ruled, but tyrannized over? These wretches have no wealth, no kin, nor wife nor children, not even life itself that they can call their own. They suffer plundering, wantonness, cruelty, not from an army, not from a barbarian horde, on account of whom they must shed their blood and sacrifice their lives, but from a single man; not from a Hercules nor from a Samson, but from a single little man. Too frequently this same little man is the most cowardly and effeminate in the nation, a stranger to the powder of battle and hesitant on the sands of the tournament; not only without energy to direct men by force, but with hardly enough virility to bed with a common woman! Shall we call subjection to such a leader cowardice? Shall we say that those who serve him are cowardly and faint-hearted? If two, if three, if four, do not defend themselves from the one, we might call that circumstance surprising but nevertheless conceivable. In such a case one might be justified in suspecting a lack of courage. But if a hundred, if a thousand endure the caprice of a single man, should we not rather say that they lack not the courage but the desire to rise against him, and that such an attitude indicates indifference rather than cowardice? When not a hundred, not a thousand men, but a hundred provinces, a thousand cities, a million men, refuse to assail a single man from whom the kindest treatment received is the infliction of serfdom and slavery, what shall we call that? Is it cowardice? Of course there is in every vice inevitably some limit beyond which one cannot go. Two, possibly ten, may fear one; but when a thousand, a million men, a thousand cities, fail to protect themselves against the domination of one man, this cannot be called cowardly, for cowardice does not sink to such a depth, any more than valor can be termed the effort of one individual to scale a fortress, to attack an army, or to conquer a kingdom. What monstrous vice, then, is this which does not even deserve to be called cowardice, a vice for which no term can be found vile enough, which nature herself disavows and our tongues refuse to name?

Boy that description of "cowardly and effiminate" sure fits our present US tyrant.

http://www.soulawakenings.com/underground/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=Voluntary+Servitude

[Kat Kanning]

Oooh putting la Bo?tie's 'voluntary servitude' together with Ayn Rand's 'sanction of the victim'...they're the same thing.  The thing they're most afraid of when we do civil disobedience is that more people will begin to see the true nature of government evil and refuse to give it the appearance of legitimacy.

[Michael Fisher]

This is why nonviolent civil disobedience is more than desirable, it is necessary if we are to achieve a lasting liberty.

[Russell Kanning]

Watching Schindler's List ...... almost every movie reminds you that we need to resist. They do everything incrementally.

[Kat Kanning]

Well worth a read:

http://www.soulawakenings.com/underground/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=Voluntary+Servitude

[PowerPenguin]

Now you have an idea of why I don't 'voluntarily' pay income or capital gains tax