WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:03.460 Hey, Larkin Rose here, hiding from the sun, making a quick video. 00:04.500 --> 00:10.300 So, there are some more no-kings protests going on. 00:11.340 --> 00:16.640 And to be on the positive side, I think the overall sentiment of that is, 00:17.480 --> 00:19.940 you're not the boss of me, so I'm okay with that. 00:20.100 --> 00:24.260 Now, are most of the people there still statists and just want somebody else to be the boss of them? 00:24.600 --> 00:26.420 Yeah, because most people in the world are. 00:26.960 --> 00:34.500 But I wanted to talk about a particular thing today because I saw a post about Bruce Springsteen. 00:35.240 --> 00:38.580 I mean, I assume he actually said this, I don't know, people can make up whatever they want. 00:40.320 --> 00:45.480 Talking about the no-kings thing and saying, I forget the exact quote because it doesn't matter. 00:46.400 --> 00:51.160 But talking about how, like, this is, we don't need this, we need democracy. 00:51.160 --> 00:56.420 And we don't want, like, dictators and fascism. We need the rule of law. 00:57.120 --> 01:01.380 And so, some of you can already guess where this is going. 01:01.840 --> 01:07.820 I've helped the need to make a video pointing out that, yeah, the rule of law and democracy 01:07.820 --> 01:12.720 are not at all incompatible with tyranny and authoritarianism. 01:12.720 --> 01:21.160 In fact, all of the worst dictatorships and oppressive regimes weren't actually monarchies. 01:21.240 --> 01:26.420 They weren't kings. They were democratically elected legislative bodies. 01:27.780 --> 01:31.040 And, you know, a lot of Americans have no idea about that. 01:31.200 --> 01:33.460 They think we're special because we get to vote. 01:33.960 --> 01:37.180 You know, who else got to vote? The people who put the Nazis into power. 01:37.460 --> 01:40.040 And the people who put Stalin into power in Russia. 01:40.040 --> 01:43.680 And the people who put Mao Zedong into power in China. 01:44.200 --> 01:48.060 And the people who put the various clowns into power in North Korea. 01:48.840 --> 01:53.020 All of those places had constitutions. All of them allowed their people to vote. 01:53.560 --> 01:58.060 And all of them did the evil that they did by way of the legislative process, 01:58.260 --> 02:01.340 calling it law, pretending it was legal authority. 02:03.280 --> 02:08.760 So, there's this sort of gut-level sympathy I have for people who are like, 02:08.760 --> 02:12.020 this is horrible. I look at these oppressions going on. I'm against this. 02:12.420 --> 02:15.520 Okay, are you against this particular injustice? 02:16.780 --> 02:19.000 And you're not really against being ruled? 02:19.900 --> 02:24.260 Because you could change the no-kings thing, because we already don't have a king. 02:25.200 --> 02:29.040 Instead, we have a...in the U.S., 02:29.040 --> 02:34.620 we have an oppressive, tyrannical, parasitical gang of sociopaths 02:34.620 --> 02:38.180 that is a democratically elected constitutional republic. 02:38.900 --> 02:40.460 And a bunch of pro-freedom people say, 02:40.540 --> 02:42.940 wow, we don't want democracy, we want a republic. 02:43.900 --> 02:48.240 You mean like the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, 02:48.660 --> 02:51.920 which is North Korea, or the Weimar Republic, 02:52.240 --> 02:54.140 which became Nazi Germany, 02:54.520 --> 02:57.540 or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republic, 02:58.960 --> 03:02.040 or the People's Republic of China? 03:02.760 --> 03:07.520 If you think republic means not tyrannical, open a freaking history book. 03:07.840 --> 03:09.080 It's not at all the case. 03:09.560 --> 03:14.200 The worst tyrannies in history were democratically elected republics, 03:14.220 --> 03:17.460 and most of the evil they did, they did by way of law, 03:17.500 --> 03:22.260 passed by whatever stupid manifestation of legislatures they had. 03:24.840 --> 03:28.160 And this isn't just sort of like a technical nitpicking, 03:28.160 --> 03:30.840 okay, well, technically, that was a republic. 03:31.080 --> 03:32.540 But not a real republic. 03:33.020 --> 03:34.880 It's inherent to what it is. 03:35.020 --> 03:37.680 And when people are saying no kings are saying, 03:37.840 --> 03:41.340 we need a republic, or we need democracy, or we need the rule of law, 03:41.800 --> 03:46.580 they don't recognize that all of those aren't just able to be corrupted. 03:47.100 --> 03:48.360 They're already corruption. 03:48.800 --> 03:51.700 By the very nature, they're already oppressive. 03:51.820 --> 03:52.980 They're already authoritarian. 03:53.820 --> 03:55.460 Now, it can be to different degrees, 03:55.460 --> 03:57.280 oh, I live under this ruling class. 03:57.560 --> 03:59.420 It only steals this much from me, 03:59.500 --> 04:02.380 but over there, their ruling class steals that much from them. 04:02.840 --> 04:04.600 Okay, so there's differing degrees. 04:05.000 --> 04:05.740 They're all thieves. 04:06.440 --> 04:07.520 They're all thugs. 04:07.660 --> 04:08.380 They're all authoritarian. 04:09.360 --> 04:11.720 Every political democracy is authoritarian, 04:12.960 --> 04:15.020 whether they're all the way actually a democracy, 04:15.320 --> 04:16.400 which they never are. 04:16.880 --> 04:18.640 They always warp the game and put on a show. 04:18.960 --> 04:21.500 But even if you had an actual democracy, 04:21.500 --> 04:24.840 all that means is the majority gets to vote 04:25.500 --> 04:27.840 to abuse the crap out of the minority. 04:28.420 --> 04:30.360 Is that okay? Does that make it right? 04:31.000 --> 04:34.800 Majority-approved nasty aggression is okay, 04:35.080 --> 04:37.420 as long as enough people approve of it. 04:37.520 --> 04:39.840 No, it isn't. It's automatically immoral. 04:41.340 --> 04:43.300 And I mean automatically immoral. 04:43.520 --> 04:45.280 Not, well, democracy can be used. 04:45.400 --> 04:49.740 It's automatically used for evil the moment you make it political. 04:50.720 --> 04:52.900 Because political is about forcing people. 04:53.560 --> 04:57.680 And there's a huge difference between consensus and democracy, 04:58.660 --> 05:01.260 where, you know, I use the example a million times, 05:02.020 --> 05:04.020 there's 10 people at a party or something, 05:04.160 --> 05:05.200 and they're like, what should we have? 05:05.340 --> 05:07.500 Well, I want pizza. I want Chinese food. I want this. 05:08.140 --> 05:10.360 If everyone could say, okay, we agree on this, 05:10.460 --> 05:12.540 maybe a few people say, well, I wasn't my first choice, 05:12.580 --> 05:13.420 but yeah, I'm fine with that. 05:14.020 --> 05:15.900 Okay, that's consensus. That's voluntary. 05:15.900 --> 05:19.320 That's anarchy, because no one's ruling anybody. 05:20.020 --> 05:23.820 Democracy would be seven of the 10 people said we want pizza, 05:24.260 --> 05:26.840 and then at gunpoint forced the other three 05:26.840 --> 05:29.120 to help fund something they didn't want. 05:29.800 --> 05:32.400 That's democracy. It is inherently evil, 05:32.900 --> 05:35.180 because it is inherently violent 05:35.740 --> 05:37.880 when you're talking about political democracy. 05:38.560 --> 05:40.440 Not just people agreeing, well, 05:40.580 --> 05:43.380 if most people want that, I will voluntarily go along. 05:43.380 --> 05:45.960 That's not what political democracy is. 05:46.140 --> 05:47.540 You don't have a stinking choice. 05:47.940 --> 05:51.000 If the majority says, our word is law, 05:51.260 --> 05:52.380 we have voted on this, 05:52.580 --> 05:55.940 and our law now forces the minority to do this, 05:56.440 --> 05:57.300 you're shit out of luck, 05:57.500 --> 06:01.680 and it's oppression just as much as if it had been one guy. 06:02.580 --> 06:07.160 It's like, well, we could either have a king in the party room 06:07.160 --> 06:09.440 and the king decides we all have to pay for pizza. 06:09.740 --> 06:11.480 That would be unjust and mean 06:11.480 --> 06:13.920 and authoritarian and oppressive. 06:14.640 --> 06:16.660 But if we have seven kings 06:16.660 --> 06:18.700 and they force the other three to pay for it, 06:18.700 --> 06:20.040 well, then that's democracy. 06:20.460 --> 06:23.440 That's rule of law. That's authoritarian bullshit. 06:24.200 --> 06:27.580 Exactly as immoral as having one guy do it. 06:28.280 --> 06:31.220 It's still forcing other people to go along 06:31.220 --> 06:34.580 something against their consent, without their consent. 06:37.680 --> 06:39.280 And so there's... 06:39.860 --> 06:43.020 The good news is that lots of people are instinctively like, 06:43.140 --> 06:43.860 we don't like this. 06:43.940 --> 06:46.280 There's police, state fascism, bossing people around. 06:47.740 --> 06:48.920 So, okay, good. 06:49.240 --> 06:53.140 There's an instinctive anti-authoritarianism in those people. 06:53.260 --> 06:54.580 They're not just saying, 06:55.640 --> 06:57.240 well, if it's the law, I guess we have to do it. 06:58.120 --> 07:00.600 They're saying, well, in this case, we don't like that. 07:00.680 --> 07:01.880 We don't like authoritarianism. 07:02.560 --> 07:03.880 Did you like authoritarianism 07:04.680 --> 07:07.380 when people were being forced to get a stupid injection 07:07.380 --> 07:09.240 and wear stupid masks that don't do any good? 07:10.080 --> 07:11.040 A bunch of you did, 07:12.920 --> 07:15.040 because yet you might not want a king, 07:15.480 --> 07:18.340 but you absolutely wanted an authoritarian ruling class 07:18.340 --> 07:20.280 forcing your view on other people. 07:22.040 --> 07:23.600 And so it would be fun. 07:23.720 --> 07:24.740 I haven't had a chance to do it, 07:24.740 --> 07:25.960 and I probably won't have a chance to do it, 07:26.000 --> 07:28.140 because I have 800,000 other things more young. 07:29.700 --> 07:31.360 But to go to one of these rallies. 07:31.500 --> 07:33.260 I know a number of people who have gone to those rallies. 07:33.480 --> 07:35.560 I know a number of volunteers who are doing that. 07:36.180 --> 07:38.420 It would be fun to ask those people, 07:39.560 --> 07:40.920 basically walk them through, 07:41.220 --> 07:43.980 okay, but if the majority, including you, 07:45.340 --> 07:47.260 wants something that I don't. 07:47.460 --> 07:51.480 You want a bridge, or you want free something for somebody, 07:51.920 --> 07:54.640 and for whatever reason I say I don't want to fund that, 07:55.000 --> 07:56.300 what do you want to have happen to me? 07:56.300 --> 07:58.480 Like we do this in candles in the dark. 08:01.120 --> 08:02.680 To put it in front of them, 08:02.800 --> 08:06.080 okay, now you have to literally describe the violence 08:06.080 --> 08:08.340 you want done to the minority, 08:09.000 --> 08:10.240 in that case just me. 08:11.100 --> 08:14.120 Well, I want free lunches for school children, okay? 08:15.040 --> 08:15.820 Funded by what? 08:16.240 --> 08:17.720 Taxes? Okay, if I don't pay, 08:17.940 --> 08:19.240 what do you want to have done to me? 08:20.400 --> 08:22.000 And then usually they hem and hawn, 08:22.080 --> 08:23.820 tap dance around and make excuses for it, 08:23.820 --> 08:26.620 as all status do, because they don't want to admit, 08:26.940 --> 08:29.560 oh, we totally want a king, or at least an oppressor, 08:29.640 --> 08:32.900 some collection of authoritarian control freaks 08:32.900 --> 08:34.440 forcing our will on you, 08:34.540 --> 08:36.200 we just don't like when other people do it to us. 08:36.500 --> 08:38.420 Yeah, that's called being a hypocrite, 08:38.480 --> 08:40.580 which is why every status in the world 08:40.580 --> 08:42.440 is automatically a hypocrite, 08:42.620 --> 08:44.000 because they play the victim, 08:44.280 --> 08:46.240 and talk about how this is unjust 08:46.800 --> 08:49.680 when somebody else does exactly the same thing to them, 08:50.120 --> 08:51.360 but they actually want that. 08:51.360 --> 08:53.640 But there is an advantage 08:53.640 --> 08:56.220 when people are currently in the mindset 08:56.220 --> 08:59.340 of we're against this authoritarianism, 08:59.740 --> 09:02.660 if you suddenly put them in the place of the, 09:03.000 --> 09:04.480 okay, if you're the one with the power, 09:05.240 --> 09:05.700 hi, quail. 09:07.440 --> 09:08.600 Quail just walked by. 09:10.500 --> 09:11.980 Would you use that power? 09:13.360 --> 09:16.380 And the beauty, there's so much psychology 09:16.380 --> 09:17.560 involved in people's beliefs, 09:17.680 --> 09:19.920 and we totally make use of that in candles in the dark, 09:19.920 --> 09:22.760 which if you hadn't heard of at Rose Channel's subscribers, 09:23.360 --> 09:25.860 get access to that, which is TheRoseChannel.com, 09:26.200 --> 09:29.700 or you can just pay once for candles in the dark 09:29.700 --> 09:32.360 at attendcandles.com and have it forever. 09:34.540 --> 09:37.080 But we use a bunch of the psychological things 09:37.080 --> 09:39.180 that if somebody has just been thinking 09:39.180 --> 09:41.980 of I don't want other people forcing their will on me, 09:42.960 --> 09:46.000 and then you say, okay, would you force your will on me, 09:48.020 --> 09:50.580 their mind is focused on a thing 09:50.580 --> 09:53.280 that now they're willing to notice, 09:53.840 --> 09:55.520 well, yeah, that wouldn't really be okay, would it? 09:55.900 --> 09:59.120 I was just complaining about other people doing that to me. 09:59.540 --> 10:01.160 Be a little lame for me to do that to you. 10:01.660 --> 10:03.900 So in candles in the dark, we often go through the procedure 10:03.900 --> 10:06.120 of first have the person you're talking to 10:06.120 --> 10:08.180 be the potential victim of authoritarianism. 10:08.780 --> 10:11.280 So for example, I'll say, if government wanted you to, 10:11.440 --> 10:14.040 wanted to force you to fund something by way of taxes, 10:14.040 --> 10:17.420 that you thought was like genuinely destructive and immoral, 10:19.020 --> 10:20.500 do you think that's okay? 10:20.960 --> 10:22.020 And everybody goes, no. 10:23.380 --> 10:26.660 Okay, what if there's something you want that I don't? 10:26.860 --> 10:29.520 So we go through the process of first make them the victim, 10:29.900 --> 10:31.700 then make yourself the potential victim. 10:31.860 --> 10:33.780 Okay, if it's something you want and I don't 10:33.780 --> 10:37.360 for whatever reason, do you want me forced 10:37.360 --> 10:38.760 to fund what you want? 10:39.460 --> 10:42.840 And when their brain is in the mindset of 10:42.840 --> 10:47.400 that's not fair sort of the principled objection to authoritarianism 10:47.400 --> 10:50.260 and you turn it around when they're in that mindset, 10:50.540 --> 10:52.180 they're way more likely to go, 10:52.880 --> 10:55.260 well, no, I don't want you forced to do anything either. 10:55.920 --> 10:58.120 Even though if you ask it in a different way, 10:58.980 --> 11:02.160 in a different setting, like, do you think the majority 11:02.160 --> 11:04.820 has the right to vote on a tax policy to fund things? 11:05.280 --> 11:07.620 Absolutely, that's the same stinking question. 11:09.400 --> 11:11.420 And people don't recognize it as that 11:11.420 --> 11:13.440 because they've been indoctrinated to believe 11:13.440 --> 11:16.600 that things like rule of law and democracy 11:16.600 --> 11:20.020 make violent aggression in the name of law 11:20.020 --> 11:22.540 a good thing, a legitimate thing, 11:22.660 --> 11:24.260 or at least a necessary thing. 11:25.980 --> 11:39.560 And so rather than just be frustrated by the fact 11:39.560 --> 11:42.360 that so many people at the No Kings protests 11:42.360 --> 11:46.000 are all statists and absolutely still believe in authoritarianism, 11:46.980 --> 11:49.840 make use of the inherent righteousness 11:49.840 --> 11:54.620 in their righteous outrage right now 11:54.620 --> 11:57.240 against the particular flavor of authoritarianism 11:57.240 --> 12:00.520 and use that as the segue into the principles 12:01.680 --> 12:04.160 because right now in that setting, 12:04.240 --> 12:06.400 in that context, in that particular example, 12:06.560 --> 12:08.500 they're being anti-authoritarian, 12:08.840 --> 12:10.160 even though they're not really, 12:10.580 --> 12:12.020 it's not really what they believe in, 12:12.420 --> 12:15.580 but you can use that as sort of a launching point 12:15.580 --> 12:19.720 to get into, okay, well, is it across the board 12:19.720 --> 12:20.620 that you oppose this, 12:20.740 --> 12:24.880 or do you just think that they're not using the force of law 12:24.880 --> 12:26.460 the way you want them to? 12:27.040 --> 12:31.080 They're not forcing people to pay for what you like, 12:31.600 --> 12:33.560 and you don't want to be forced to pay for, like, 12:34.140 --> 12:35.900 ice or a war or whatever it is. 12:36.920 --> 12:40.660 And in Candles in the Dark we teach that you... 12:40.660 --> 12:42.580 the only time you ever say what you think 12:42.580 --> 12:43.840 when you're in Candles in the Dark mode 12:43.840 --> 12:44.820 is to agree with them. 12:44.820 --> 12:47.500 Yeah, I don't want you forced to fund a war either 12:47.500 --> 12:48.480 or to pay for ice, 12:48.520 --> 12:49.960 or I don't want you forced to pay for anything. 12:51.100 --> 12:53.960 But then have them be the ones where you ask them, 12:53.960 --> 12:55.740 do you want me forced to pay for, 12:56.140 --> 12:58.480 like, if you want government to help the poor? 12:59.000 --> 13:01.620 If for whatever reason, maybe I say, 13:01.760 --> 13:03.460 I help people I know individually, 13:03.580 --> 13:04.740 I think that's way more efficient, 13:05.080 --> 13:07.620 government welfare's all corrupted, it's a disaster. 13:08.020 --> 13:08.840 Whatever my reasons, 13:08.940 --> 13:10.160 whether you like my reasons or not, 13:11.020 --> 13:13.720 what do you, the person who didn't want to be forced 13:13.720 --> 13:16.200 to fund the war, want done to me, 13:17.080 --> 13:19.700 if I don't want to be forced to fund your 13:20.800 --> 13:22.700 democratically approved legal 13:23.780 --> 13:24.760 government extortion? 13:25.620 --> 13:28.060 So, yeah, you can just be frustrated 13:28.060 --> 13:30.180 by what giant hypocrites most of them are, 13:30.360 --> 13:32.060 or you can try to use the opportunity 13:32.060 --> 13:34.900 as a segue into trying to introduce them 13:34.900 --> 13:37.480 to the idea that, yeah, you shouldn't be oppressed, 13:38.180 --> 13:39.200 and either should I, 13:40.040 --> 13:41.320 and either should anybody else. 13:41.320 --> 13:43.880 And you can only be in that position 13:43.880 --> 13:47.280 when you move from no kings to no rulers. 13:48.040 --> 13:51.120 And there's a word that means no rulers, 13:51.580 --> 13:54.240 or literally ruled by no one, 13:54.460 --> 13:56.020 which is anarchy. 13:56.780 --> 13:58.980 And anarchists are the only ones, 13:59.420 --> 14:03.460 by definition, who believe in a world without rulers. 14:04.340 --> 14:06.920 And trying to nudge people into seeing that, 14:07.420 --> 14:08.420 well, that's the challenge. 14:08.940 --> 14:10.180 So, get out there and do it.