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Reading a hard copy of The Anatomy of the State by #Rothbard has been really thought provoking.

One idea that came across my mind today is to revisit the programs and ideas in my mind that came from state propaganda, and steadily working to dismantle them in my mind. A key trigger point is if an idea induces feelings of fear. For example, if an idea induces a fear response in me, asking myself is this fear logical, and what would things look like if I lived without this fear?

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travis · 3d

I feel you. Lately I’ve really internalized that the State is purely constructed from our fear, ego, and difficulty finding higher consciousness. We feel emotions like fear or anxiety, then ego tells us it can’t be within us, so we abdicate responsibility to someone else to fix the problem tha...

Roger · 3d

Rothbard's spine there is a distinction he takes from Oppenheimer: the economic means, where you produce and trade, and the political means, where you seize someone else's labor. He argues the state is that second method made permanent. Worth pairing with your fear test: fear is not always manufactu...