Leo D.M.J. Aurini - Freedom and Authority

00:00:00.000 The other night I was hanging out with a couple of guys, one of whom was ex-military.

00:00:08.000 And try as we might, we could not stop reminiscing about all of our good times in the army.

00:00:16.000 We kept trying not to because we were excluding the other guy who wasn't ex-military,

00:00:22.000 and we wanted to bring him into the conversation, but we just kept falling back into the pattern.

00:00:27.000 Because even though both of us are very glad to be enjoying slack city life nowadays,

00:00:34.000 part of us still misses the army. It was a lot of fun.

00:00:39.000 The weird thing is that when I was in the army, I'd always get comments from people

00:00:46.000 saying that you don't seem like you'd fit in very well in the army.

00:00:50.000 You seem to have an anti-authoritarian streak. 1.00

00:00:57.000 And while I have a very, very low tolerance for bullshit, for stupid rules, for airport security, 1.00

00:01:05.000 or for some prick bouncer at a bar saying that at this bar we all check our coats, 1.00

00:01:11.000 asshole, I keep my cell phone, cigarettes, wallet, notepad, and pen in my coat. 1.00

00:01:17.000 You're not taking my goddamn coat unless you're going to follow me around and carry those for me. 1.00

00:01:22.000 If you want my business at your shitty establishment. 0.99

00:01:26.000 Yeah, I don't like that sort of authority. 0.97

00:01:31.000 And yet, I never had any authority issues in the army.

00:01:36.000 Because we have a very messed up definition of what authority is nowadays.

00:01:47.000 We tend to view it as anybody who claims to have the right to make rules gets to make rules, 0.99

00:01:54.000 no matter how stupid and insane the rules are. 0.99

00:02:01.000 Yeah, I think most of us came to the right through the Libertarian Party. 1.00

00:02:06.000 It's, I mean, it just makes so much sense.

00:02:09.000 Libertarians are, for the most part, Austrian economists.

00:02:14.000 They recognize that the free market is, generally speaking, the best way to organize things.

00:02:22.000 That command economies, that centralized authority, does not work very well.

00:02:27.000 It does not achieve an optimal solution as frequently as the free market.

00:02:33.000 And that when the free market has a market failure, which it does,

00:02:41.000 doesn't mean that a centrally planned system is going to correct that failure.

00:02:46.000 If anything, the centrally planned system tends to exacerbate it.

00:02:52.000 And yet, I'm growing increasingly disenfranchised with the Libertarians.

00:03:00.000 You know, certainly, take Reason Magazine.

00:03:02.000 Take Reason TV.

00:03:04.000 They have their little video clips they put out, the Nanny of the Month. 1.00

00:03:08.000 And it's always some idiot mayor or idiot city council that just wants to take away some freedom for your own good. 1.00

00:03:19.000 Whether it's smoking bans and bars or if it's New York, 1.00

00:03:23.000 with Bloomberg saying that you're not allowed to get a large coke anymore.

00:03:29.000 It's just another bit of this progressive tyranny that comes over us.

00:03:38.000 And I certainly can't say I like the cops, either.

00:03:44.000 You know, in theory, I know that there are good cops out there.

00:03:48.000 I don't know how many of them, but there are definitely a few.

00:03:54.000 The thing is, there are so many cops that abuse their power and still expect to be treated with authority.

00:04:08.000 When they have none, they aren't setting an example. 0.99

00:04:11.000 They break the rules constantly and never give each other tickets when they're caught speeding in a bullshit speeding trap. 0.87

00:04:19.000 They scan your license plate and look it up whenever they pull up behind you in traffic. 0.95

00:04:26.000 Hell, I've had them not even pretend they weren't doing it.

00:04:29.000 I've had them pull up in the lane to my left and stop behind my motorcycle just so they could scan it.

00:04:36.000 Because that's what they do.

00:04:38.000 And I have zero respect for that sort of bullying.

00:04:42.000 That's not authority.

00:04:44.000 That's abuse of power.

00:04:49.000 So, of course, we're attracted to this libertarian platform that,

00:04:57.000 get out of my personal business.

00:05:00.000 Get the nation out of the nation's bedrooms.

00:05:03.000 It does not belong there.

00:05:05.000 But civilization is nothing but a social construct.

00:05:12.000 It goes against the innate human drives.

00:05:19.000 And while some people, like some people, this is so fricking obvious that society is better than the world of savagery,

00:05:29.000 for the intelligentsia, for the upper middle class, the upper class,

00:05:35.000 it's blindingly obvious that civilization is better than savagery.

00:05:40.000 But they make the mistake of thinking everybody realizes that.

00:05:49.000 Stoddard called it the under-man.

00:05:52.000 And he talks about how the over-man, the great man, the uber-mensch,

00:05:57.000 will, if they're disenfranchised from society,

00:06:01.000 if for some reason they've been excluded from the ruling caste by circumstance,

00:06:10.000 Osama bin Laden,

00:06:12.000 they feel a need to ally themselves with the under-man,

00:06:17.000 to have their glorious revolution,

00:06:20.000 and take the power back for the people, 1.00

00:06:23.000 not realizing that the people they're taking the power for are a bunch of morons. 1.00

00:06:31.000 So last summer, I was working with this Omega male, 1.00

00:06:38.000 a complete sexual deviant, 0.99

00:06:40.000 like one of these disgusting pickup artists, 1.00

00:06:43.000 the kind that you really worry about your sisters or your female friends running into, 0.85

00:06:49.000 the sort of guy that will say all the right words,

00:06:52.000 will say to a girl that he loves her, even though he knows she's a virgin, 0.95

00:06:56.000 just to get into her pants, and then will drop her. 1.00

00:06:59.000 that will help destroy her inability to meet the nice guy she was actually holding out for. 0.99

00:07:08.000 Liar, scam artist, and multiple felon. 0.93

00:07:12.000 He just hadn't been caught for anything too serious. 0.99

00:07:15.000 I got to hear about some of his lovely break-and-enter stories.

00:07:18.000 And so, in an attempt to bond with this guy,

00:07:25.000 because I'm stuck in a vehicle with him for 12 hours a day for the next 15 days,

00:07:31.000 I mention my own dislike for the cops.

00:07:36.000 I don't like the surveillance state.

00:07:38.000 I don't like the police state. 1.00

00:07:40.000 I don't like the bad, goddamn attitude that these 105 IQ cops wander around with. 1.00

00:07:47.000 Cops that can't drive as well as I can, 1.00

00:07:51.000 who think they have the right to give me a goddamn ticket just because they're in a bad mood. 0.98

00:08:00.000 So I start trying to talk to this guy about this. 0.98

00:08:03.000 About crimes that shouldn't be crimes being prosecuted.

00:08:10.000 Sure, I don't have to go into detail here, folks.

00:08:13.000 You all know that when you take a non-violent drug offense,

00:08:17.000 whether it's using or whether it's dealing in small numbers,

00:08:21.000 that you take that guy, you take that guy with $5 worth of crack,

00:08:27.000 punished 20 times as hard as cocaine even though they're the same drug,

00:08:31.000 and you lock him up for 10 years,

00:08:36.000 you don't get a reformed citizen coming out of prison.

00:08:39.000 You get a career criminal.

00:08:42.000 You give somebody a criminal record, they're a permanent reject. 0.57

00:08:46.000 A castless one.

00:08:48.000 A person who their only decent option at that point is to earn money through crime.

00:08:56.000 Reform themselves? What?

00:08:57.000 They're going to work at a car wash for the rest of their years?

00:09:00.000 Try and find a girlfriend? Try and actualize with that?

00:09:04.000 Or are they going to get into some big crime?

00:09:07.000 All because they got busted with the legally qualified amount of some drug,

00:09:14.000 which isn't that bad to begin with, and it ruins their life. 0.99

00:09:21.000 I try and talk to this Omega about that kind of crap. 0.99

00:09:26.000 And his attitude? 1.00

00:09:28.000 It's like I was talking to a cop.

00:09:31.000 Well, you know what?

00:09:33.000 You take the risk.

00:09:34.000 Sometimes you get away with it.

00:09:36.000 Sometimes you don't.

00:09:37.000 You do the crime, you do the time.

00:09:40.000 That's just the game you're playing.

00:09:41.000 It's insane if you think about it.

00:09:52.000 I mean, we've all played Grand Theft Auto, and we've probably all reflected on how ridiculously easy it is to get away with these crimes.

00:10:03.000 That we would never do something like that in real life, because the consequence for that crime is the destruction of our own life.

00:10:16.000 And it's the career criminal to the underman, this penalty of being locked in a cage for five years, twenty years.

00:10:26.000 It's just the cost of doing business.

00:10:29.000 They approach it the same way we consider a tax when we're buying something to start up a business.

00:10:39.000 They literally think about it in the same manner.

00:10:46.000 And part of the reason for this is that to be an underman is to constantly be a slave to your own desires.

00:10:59.000 Now, it might have been Murray Rothbard that said this.

00:11:01.000 I can't quite recall.

00:11:04.000 Somebody said this.

00:11:05.000 That the ideal libertarian man doesn't want to be too rich and doesn't want to be too poor.

00:11:16.000 If you're too poor, you're a slave to the paycheck.

00:11:20.000 You are stressing out and desperate about how you're going to afford bills this month, how you're going to afford food, let alone dreaming of self-actualizing.

00:11:30.000 You're too busy trying to figure out how to eat.

00:11:33.000 But if you're too rich, all of a sudden you become a slave to that money.

00:11:43.000 And certainly you see this slave mentality in the upper classes nowadays, in the financial classes.

00:11:52.000 The bankers, the CEOs, this constant craving for more money, for an extra piece of the pie.

00:12:04.000 They don't care about the business.

00:12:08.000 Take Romney.

00:12:09.000 That man devastated businesses to make himself money, sending the jobs overseas, oftentimes destroying the company in the long term for a short-term gain.

00:12:22.000 This Omega attitude that they have no value or investment in anything beyond that.

00:12:30.000 It's not like they're sitting there and saying, you know what, I want to keep this company in the United States, but with this tax code I just can't do it.

00:12:41.000 No rationalization.

00:12:43.000 They don't care.

00:12:45.000 They're destroying businesses to get a quick boost to the share price.

00:12:51.000 Make no mistake, folks.

00:12:54.000 There have been studies done showing that all the cutbacks that happened in the 90s, maybe your parents got laid off from one of those.

00:13:01.000 Mine did.

00:13:02.000 Those cutbacks, that trimming the fat did not help those companies.

00:13:07.000 Not in the long term.

00:13:08.000 It added a short-term boost to the share price.

00:13:10.000 The CEO reigning during the cutbacks.

00:13:15.000 He got a nice paycheck.

00:13:17.000 He got a golden parachute.

00:13:18.000 But a lot of those companies started losing money after that because, oops, that wasn't fat.

00:13:25.000 That was a necessary part.

00:13:27.000 That's the 90% of the brain that you're not using at any given time.

00:13:31.000 You can't just cut out 90% of the brain and still have the same IQ.

00:13:35.000 You need that even if you're not using it all the time.

00:13:44.000 You see, to the underman, whether it's the...

00:13:50.000 Quite frankly, none of these people are particularly high IQ.

00:13:53.000 The one I was dealing with, yeah, he was over 100.

00:13:56.000 He was charismatic as all hell.

00:13:58.000 For a short while. 0.76

00:13:59.000 I mean, hang out with him for a few days, you'll figure out he's a scam artist. 0.98

00:14:03.000 That he'll stab you in the back for a $5 bill. 0.69

00:14:06.000 But in the short term, he's charismatic. 0.96

00:14:09.000 He knows how to get what he wants.

00:14:11.000 It's a shame that he didn't figure out how to go CEO because he would have fit in perfectly into that culture.

00:14:20.000 But these people, they just have this short term desire they're pursuing after.

00:14:27.000 And risking their entire life.

00:14:33.000 You break in to somebody's house and steal a TV.

00:14:36.000 And you've got beer money for the weekend.

00:14:39.000 But if you get caught, your life is over.

00:14:42.000 But see, they're not free.

00:14:48.000 They can never be free in their own minds.

00:14:51.000 So, for the underman, whether they're in prison or whether they're walking around on the streets, they're a slave.

00:15:01.000 The CEO with his ivory back scratchers and his cavalcade of servants is just as much of a slave.

00:15:12.000 They really can't tell the difference between autonomy and obedience because they don't have the capacity for autonomy.

00:15:22.000 And so while this libertarian obsession with freedom is certainly wonderful for the overman, it doesn't make any sense to the underman.

00:15:43.000 The underman does not know what slavery is.

00:15:49.000 Any more than a cop knows what slavery is. 1.00

00:15:52.000 Well, it was a stupid law, but you broke the law, you do the time. 0.99

00:15:58.000 Thanks, guardians of our society. 1.00

00:16:01.000 Thin blue line.

00:16:03.000 You know what, part of what pollutes this whole conversation, and you know what, a lot of you guys have pointed this out.

00:16:19.000 You've said you don't like the way that I break things down into the left and the right.

00:16:24.000 The thing is that you don't have a right-wing party in the United States.

00:16:33.000 The Democrats and Republicans are both these two insane sorts of idealists.

00:16:41.000 Now, we've analyzed the Democrats extensively. 0.93

00:16:44.000 You know, we all know what progressive, sociopathic, nectocrats these people are, so I don't need to waste breath on that in this video.

00:16:53.000 The Republicans, meanwhile, let's not forget that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican.

00:17:00.000 Now, I'm actually working on a post right now going into some of the primary source history of what was actually going on in the South.

00:17:14.000 But American slavery was a lot more like British aristocracy from 1723 than it was like Conan the Barbarian.

00:17:27.000 But essentially, and I'm not going to go too deep into the slavery nonsense, the lie that we all got taught, but the reason, even if you hate slavery, even if you completely buy into the standard narrative of they were killing slaves for no reason and they were having lynchings every weekend for fun and they were raping all the women, even if you believe all of that.

00:17:55.000 Lincoln did not free the slaves because he liked black people. 0.81

00:18:04.000 He thought they would go extinct without their white masters looking after them. 1.00

00:18:08.000 And he's been quoted as saying that he would have supported slavery if it would have kept the Union together.

00:18:13.000 The Republicans have always been owned by the big banking money.

00:18:20.000 That is what caused the war between the North and the South.

00:18:24.000 The fact that the big moneyed interests in the North did not like the economic dependence of the South, particularly not when they had the mouth of the Mississippi River.

00:18:34.000 It was about money. It was about monopoly. It was the exact same Republican Party that started two wars with no victory conditions to help support rich companies.

00:18:53.000 The only time the Republicans are conservative are when the Democrats are being particularly progressive.

00:19:05.000 And even then, it's only by comparison.

00:19:14.000 Whereas in Canada, we do actually have a conservative party.

00:19:18.000 Stephen Harper is not my favorite person in the world.

00:19:24.000 He is a small-town conservative, when you get right down to it.

00:19:29.000 His ethos is that of the town of 20,000 or 30,000 people, where church elders and farmers with middling IQ run the place.

00:19:44.000 And he's the charismatic sociopath that knows how to rise to the top of that group.

00:19:49.000 Quite frankly, he gets on my nerves.

00:19:59.000 He's a little bit too okay with the surveillance state.

00:20:04.000 See, again, small town. Everybody knows each other.

00:20:07.000 You are constantly being surveilled by your fellow citizens.

00:20:11.000 And yet there's a fine line of difference between gossip and social shaming and modern media technology.

00:20:22.000 Modern video cameras, recording software.

00:20:26.000 And especially in an anarcho-utopia state where...

00:20:32.000 Anarcho-tyranny. My bad.

00:20:35.000 An anarcho-tyranny where everything is illegal, but only some people get prosecuted sometimes.

00:20:41.000 For breaking the law.

00:20:47.000 He's a little bit too happy with the moralistic legislation.

00:20:54.000 He mistakes the contemporary culture of the small town for the natural product of the Magna Carta.

00:21:05.000 As opposed to one local social experiment that works for those people.

00:21:11.000 At the same time, unlike the Libertarian, I recognize that we have the Undermen. 0.93

00:21:19.000 We have the Degenerates, the Omegas, these savages, that the only way you can train them into civilization is by beating them with a stick. 1.00

00:21:30.000 These people do not and cannot understand civilization. 0.75

00:21:36.000 If the Libertarian ideal took over, then these people would be running rampant. 0.96

00:21:43.000 It wouldn't be quite as bad as with the current Democrat paradigm, but it would still be pretty, pretty goddamn bad. 0.89

00:21:52.000 And so, I would vote for Harper. 0.51

00:22:03.000 In fact, in the upcoming election, I'm very, very worried that we're going to get Trudeaus. 0.86

00:22:07.000 Trudeaus, while an accomplished individual, was the guy that basically fucked up Canada.

00:22:14.000 And now his son, who is not an accomplished individual, is going to be running as the leader of the Liberal Party. 1.00

00:22:19.000 And, of course, these idiots with their misunderstanding of Monarchy. 0.99

00:22:25.000 You see, everybody's against a Monarch having power, but they all love the romanticism of a Monarch. 1.00

00:22:31.000 Just like Bush II, they're going to vote for this scumbucket. 0.99

00:22:36.000 Where is Harper? 1.00

00:22:42.000 Oh, certainly. He's a small-town douchebag. 0.99

00:22:45.000 He is this ridiculous sociopathic priest. 1.00

00:22:53.000 But he has his limits. 1.00

00:22:58.000 He's the sort of guy that would go out there and ban a double-ended dildo.

00:23:02.000 And while I'm not in a huge rush to buy a double-ended dildo, I like that I have the freedom to buy one of those things.

00:23:10.000 And I think we should have the freedom.

00:23:15.000 But strong authority in society is necessary to deal with the underclass. 1.00

00:23:22.000 And quite frankly, it doesn't really affect me all that much if double-ended dildos get banned.

00:23:32.000 The fact that so many drugs are illegal that shouldn't be illegal is an irritant to me.

00:23:40.000 I'm not a slave to chemical desires.

00:23:43.000 I don't constantly need this access to cheap highs.

00:23:48.000 I find my biggest highs conversing with friends and reading books.

00:23:53.000 A stable society, a reactionary society, is going to need strong legislation and strong leaders. 0.99

00:24:07.000 And every so often you're going to have a stupid law. 1.00

00:24:10.000 But the smart people can avoid the stupid laws. 1.00

00:24:17.000 Stupid as they are, and certainly the Democrats, with their technocratic leanings, are going over the top. 1.00

00:24:24.000 We're living in anarcho-tyranny. 1.00

00:24:26.000 No punishment for criminals, constant punishment for law-abiding folks. 0.96

00:24:32.000 Because we're not wearing a seatbelt or something equally ridiculous like that.

00:24:37.000 But I'm willing to meet a middle ground with a conservative.

00:24:48.000 Which I don't think the libertarians are.

00:24:50.000 The libertarians have this idealist thing going on

00:24:54.000 that is going to result in us paying the medical costs of the underman 1.00

00:25:01.000 whenever they injure themselves or crash drunk driving or whatever other idiocy. 0.99

00:25:12.000 Slightly misguided conservative rule is at least transparent. 0.99

00:25:18.000 You know exactly what is illegal.

00:25:20.000 Sometimes it's something that should be legal.

00:25:24.000 But at least you know it's illegal.

00:25:27.000 And generally, if you manage to keep it on the down low, you don't get punished for it.

00:25:38.000 You see, the overman can deal with a lot more freedom.

00:25:43.000 If you know any upper-class couples that do a little bit of soft swinging on the side,

00:25:49.000 or even just the university educated people having more sexual partners before getting married,

00:25:56.000 they manage to deal with it and then still have stable marriages.

00:26:00.000 The 50% divorce rate is largely about the lower classes.

00:26:05.000 Because if you give the lower classes this much freedom, 0.93

00:26:08.000 if you don't put these social standards, this carrot and stick,

00:26:12.000 to act like a civilized person,

00:26:15.000 they start screwing everything up.

00:26:17.000 So instead of pretending that we can all deal with the libertarian freedom,

00:26:28.000 we should be recognizing that some of these people, if you don't put the stick to them, 0.99

00:26:37.000 are just the absolute most worthless cunts in the world. 0.99

00:26:41.000 And they're not going anywhere, we have to deal with them. 1.00

00:26:45.000 That is the challenge of civilization.

00:26:50.000 Peace through power.

Leo D.M.J. Aurini - February 05, 2013

Freedom and Authority

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