The thousands of protesters in New York and cities around the world are likely to achieve nothing if they continue down their current course. Instead of calling themselves “the other 99%,” they should adopt the tagline “the odds are 99-to-1.”
The protesters have not realized that all of the issues they want to address are only symptoms of a deeper problem. The singular objective should be the abolition of the state.
It seems like every decade or two, a new technology blasts into society and radically changes our way of life; electricity, cars, radio, telephone, television, computers, cell phones and now the car blackbox/ dashcam.
To the average citizen, the suggestion that society could function without a government is unfathomable. We have all been programmed with the notion that statelessness equals chaos and violence. This myth protects the state by making them appear valuable and necessary. For those who have the audacity to contemplate statelessness, one of the first questions to arise is: “How could the roads operate without a state?”
