Hey, Larkin Rose here, and in my opinion,
you are not the rightful property of another person. In other words, you shouldn't be a
slave. Now, I know what you're thinking. The moment you heard me say that, of course, your first thought was,
ah, I may sound good in theory if you're gonna get all philosophical,
but will it work? In practice, here in the real world,
how will every single aspect of my life work if I'm not somebody else's property, if I'm not a slave?
I'm sure that was your first reaction to me saying what I did.
Or, or wasn't it? Was that not your first reaction? Was your first reaction?
Yeah, of course, I shouldn't be a slave.
Because, I mean,
why would you just believe that
unless I can describe for you how literally every single aspect of your life will work perfectly
if you're not a slave?
How will you get food? How will you have shelter?
Who's gonna protect you? What guarantees are there that somebody might not beat you up and take your stuff?
What guarantees are there that somebody might not capture you and enslave you if you weren't a slave?
Obviously, it's it's
irresponsible and childish for me to say that you shouldn't be a slave without also
describing and guaranteeing in great detail
how every single part of your life will work perfectly
without you being a slave.
Obviously, I'm being facetious. I was just on
Larry Sharp Show. We had a grand time having a chat for almost two hours.
Time flies when you're having fun.
And a thing came up that so often comes up.
Well, if we don't have a ruling class, how will everything work? How will we deal with this?
What happens if this scenario comes up?
And it still strikes me as weird. So I thought I'd do a video about it.
Because on the one hand, it makes sense for people to say, well, if there's a different arrangement than what I'm used to,
I'm curious about, well, how will this be handled and what will this look like and, you know,
how will things happen? Just like if somebody actually was a chattel slave and was freed,
he may very well wonder, all right, where am I going to live?
How am I going to get food? Can I get a job? Is anybody going to hire me?
Like there's a bunch of problems in front of me that weren't in front of me when I was a slave.
There was a really big problem in front of me when I was a slave, which was I was a slave.
But now that I'm responsible for my own life, yeah, there are a bunch of challenges.
Okay, that's fine to talk about those things and theorize how things might work.
But if your argument is basically, well, unless I'm totally comfortable with your predictions
of how everything would work, I better, I better keep on being a slave. Because uncertainty, yeah,
we wouldn't want that. I mean, much better to be a slave than have to face the uncertainty of a
free life, right? But that's exactly how most
statists respond to the idea of a Holocaust. Okay, you say nobody should rob me and violently
dominate me and that I don't have a moral obligation to bow to the demands of political
psychopaths. Fine, fine, fine, in the theory and in getting all philosophical and stuff.
But how will every single aspect of all of society work perfectly if I'm not
obligated to obey political psychopaths? And it's a really weird question. Again,
it's reasonable to go, Oh, yeah, it's bonkers to think that I'm beholden to that. I might have a
hard time picturing how all of society will work without a ruling class because so long
I've lived under a ruling class. So how might this be handled? How might that be handled?
Those are reasonable questions. But it's not at all reasonable
is for someone to cling to the notion that they're obligated to bow to political psychopaths
unless and until somebody can describe in great detail how the whole world will be just fine.
Nothing bad will ever happen if we don't all have an obligation to bow to psychopaths.
But that's how people respond. And it shows the power of it shows how much power uncertainty has,
how much people are so scared of whatever is unfamiliar that they will choose a familiar
hell over an unfamiliar like drastic improvement in their life
because they're not sure what to expect. Oh, we're very familiar with the hell.
And we know the hell. Well, we've been living it for a very long time. Yeah,
this warmongering and mass extortion and oppression dystopian police state here and there.
But, you know, at least we know it at least is a known quantity.
We wouldn't want to face the terrors of not empowering psychopaths to have giant war machines
and the power to violently dominate Rob all of us unless we have assurances that literally every
aspect of life will work perfectly flawlessly. Nothing bad will ever happen to anyone.
But it shows how much statism is not at all the result of logic or reasoning.
It's an indoctrinated belief. It's not a conclusion. It's not an understanding of anything.
It's a belief that was trained into people, indoctrinated into people.
And when they respond to that, to the idea of you own yourself, nobody has the right to rob you.
And if somebody tells you to do something and their commands don't match what your conscience says,
you have no obligation to obey them. You might go along if they have more guns than you and go
along just out of self-preservation. But there's no reason in the world for you to feel like,
oh, the right thing to do is to bow to and obey that bunch of lying crooks in DC or wherever.
That's utterly bonkers. And if I point out that that's utterly bonkers and prove whites,
provably utterly bonkers, for people to respond by saying, okay, well, how will everything work,
though? It's just really damn weird. It literally is a caged animal like who's living in his cage
the whole time. Somebody opens the door and he like backs away from the door,
close the door. I don't know what's out there. That's most of humanity. And that is the emotional level
instinctive psychological reaction of people faced with a far superior situation that's unfamiliar.
Okay, well, how do everything work? If I walk out of this cage, how will I get food? My master
brings me food once a day and food and water. I'm not going out there. There might be all sorts
of things out there. I'm scared of them. And so and it's tempting, and I do it too, to explain, well,
here's here's how people would approach things. I mean, I had a pretty long discussion with
Larry Sharpe about this. Here's the mentality of how people would approach things if there's a
conflict, people being grownups and responsible for their own actions. Here's how they would might
approach different things without believing they have some obligation to bow to a ruling class.
But that entire discussion is basically just an excuse for indoctrinated statists
to not have to consider being free, literally, accepting your own freedom. Now, here's a short
version of why believing in an obligation to obey an authority is literally insane.
Incidentally, my new book about to be taking pre-orders might be able to do that, but check
the description below and see if pre-orders for my new book, Approaching Humanity, are available
yet. It will be any moment now. And if you went, hey, I thought the event was called
Approaching Humanity. It is. The book is coming out at the event, and the book and the event
go together. They very much mesh with each other and cover similar topics. But the new
book explains why it's literally insane to not understand that you own yourself.
And there are several ways to do that. One is, there you are inside your head, and you have
some perception of right and wrong, unless you're a sosia bath or whatever. Or at least,
like you may not want to call it right and wrong if you're a moral nihilist or something,
but you probably have some idea of like, here's how people should behave, and that's
definitely how they should not behave. Okay, that's all you need. It doesn't matter how you
define that. It doesn't matter the source of morality or any of that. Just if you think
there's things people should do, things they shouldn't do with like randomly slaughtering
people, hopefully in the category of what they shouldn't do for you, that's not in your
category of what people shouldn't do. Remind me to keep my distance from you.
But if you have any moral code whatsoever, okay, so there you are in your head.
You have your senses. You have your interface with the world. You're hearing things. You're
seeing things. You're judging things. You're thinking about things. Doesn't mean you're
all knowing. Doesn't mean you're perfect. Doesn't mean you don't get things wrong.
But your brain is all you have. There you are, the pilot inside your
bane head walking around addressing the world. Then along comes somebody and says,
hey, you should believe that you have a moral obligation to ignore your conscience
and just obey me. Instead, I am authority. I am a lawmaker. I am government. I am
representative government. You are obligated to obey my laws and you should
believe that you're obligated to obey my laws. You should believe that it's
immoral for you to disobey my laws. Now, there you are inside your head.
If you think about it for five seconds, which people don't because they weren't
reasoned into this. They were indoctrinated into it. If you think about it for five
seconds, how bonkers would it be for you to say, okay, here's my moral judgment
in here where I'm deciding what I should and shouldn't do. That guy over there
says that what I should do, the good thing for me to do is ignore my own
conscience. The thing that tells me good and bad. Ignore my own conscience in
favor of obeying him, blindly obeying his laws because he's authority. And I'm
bad. He wants me to think that I'm bad if I disobey him. Not just bad things
will happen to me. It's not just a threat. The notion of authority is the
right to rule, which implies the obligation to obey on the part of the
subject class. So if there you are inside your own head and you think, huh, okay,
you convinced me that I, using my moral conscience and my moral judgment,
have decided that you outrank my moral judgment and my conscience. And I decided
that using my moral judgment and my conscience so that I think the right
thing for me to do is don't do the thing that I think is the right thing to do.
Do the thing that that guy told me to. Because what I think is the right thing
to do I have decided is not the right thing to do. The right thing to do
isn't what I think the right thing to do is the right thing to do I think
is to do whatever he said. If you can't follow it, it's because it's bat shit loony,
but it is inherent to the belief and authority. Your conscience has to decide to ignore itself
in favor of blind obedience to somebody else, but your conscience is a thing deciding that.
And it boils down to, hmm, I judge that I should not judge.
And this built in contradiction and hypocrisy that is in every status head. It can't not be.
If you imagine an outside authority, you have to think, well here with this head that
can determine right from wrong, it has determined that the right thing for me to do is ignore
the thing in my head that tells me right from wrong and instead obey that guy because this
has decided obedience to him is good, which in turn means that this has decided that I shouldn't
listen to this anymore when it tells me what's right and wrong. I should only listen to it long enough
to decide to blindly obey that guy. There is inherent hypocrisy and schizophrenic insanity
automatically if you believe in an external authority. And my book
Approaching Humanity explains that it's not quite as in your face and rude about it,
tries to be gentle because it's targeting the rest of the world.
But that internal conflict between, okay, we have our own inner voice, our conscience,
our moral code, or whatever you want to call it, something in you that goes, yeah,
it's not okay that that guy's just randomly murdering a bunch of people. That's bad.
Look, people getting along peacefully. That seems good to me. Okay, whatever inside you
can make that distinction, and if nothing inside you can make that distinction,
please stay away from me. Whatever inside you can make that distinction,
if you ignore that and blindly obey somebody else, there's still a part of you going,
what the hell are we doing? This isn't okay. And one of the best illustrations of that
is the psychology experiments of Stanley Milgram. And my book Approaching Humanity
covers a bunch of the specific findings in his experiments and what they mean.
And so one of the things that most of you probably know the thing, basically somebody
thought they were electrocuting somebody else just because an authority figure told them to,
not somebody accused of a crime or anybody, but, oh, we're doing a memory test or whatever,
and you turn on the voltage and you hit the button, they think they're shocking somebody
else. The test was actually, the one being tested didn't know that he was the subject.
It was actually a test to see, all right, to what degree will some random person
zap a complete stranger just because an authority figure told them to? Spoiler,
most people will do that to the point of causing severe pain or death to a complete stranger.
Most Americans will do that. And the results are pretty much independent of education levels
and IQ levels and income levels and religious beliefs, independent of almost everything.
But some of the most important things that Milgram found wasn't just, oh,
people do evil crap when authority tells them to. Gee, it's almost like they were trained
to not have a will of their own, as if somebody, maybe by way of something called the
Prussian indoctrination system, intentionally conditioned people so that they would do as
they're told, even if what they're told to do is evil. The book gets into that too.
But the dead giveaway that there's still the human being in there is how many people,
while they're electrocuting a complete stranger, or they think they are,
the other person is actually an actor, screaming out and talking about heart problems and all sorts
of stuff. While they're doing that, a lot of people are begging to be allowed to do it.
Do we have to continue? Do I have to keep doing this? And there's no threat to them.
Like the authority figure isn't like, I'm going to beat the crap out of you,
don't keep going. It's, he's supposed to say, just, oh, the experiment must continue.
Okay, so the person is begging to be allowed. All you have to do is don't go like that.
You're the one going like that, electrocuting somebody. And the person there is telling you
to do it. And so many people are like, can I stop? Yeah, you can stop by stopping.
But most people don't have the mental fortitude to do that because they've been trained like dogs
to do as they're told and feel like obedience is a virtue. So you can see the inner human being
going, wow, this is screwed up. So not only will they be begging to be allowed to stop,
a lot of times they'll be shaking. They'll be crying. Sometimes they'll even be nervously
laughing like, do we really have to go on? They'll be going like this and sweating and
trembling and so their conscience is in there kind of trying to slap some sense into them and say,
why on earth are you doing this? You're torturing somebody who wasn't even accused of doing anything
bad. He's just doing a memory test and you're inflicting this horrible pain on him. But part
of their brain is like, well, the authority figure told me, do I have to? So you can see the
conflict. And then a bunch of, Milgram did a bunch of different variations on the experiments and
you can just watch the schizophrenic split personality thing going on inside the
person's head where part of them is like, this is very not okay. I don't like this. And part of
them is put authority told me to, yeah, that's the trained dog part. And approaching humanity
talks about that and it covers how that actually functions and how that's way stronger than most
people think. And when Milgram interviewed people who hadn't done the experiment, almost everybody
said, well, as soon as the person zaps as I went out of this, I would stop. Everybody thinks that
basically they're libertarian that they wouldn't shock somebody against this will. Like up until
that point, you can say, well, you volunteer for the experiment and I'm zapping him. He agreed to
this. I don't know why, but he agreed to it. But the moment he says, I want out, I think
it's like at 150 volts. It's what I call the libertarian line. Because if he goes, I'm done,
I'm not doing this anymore that the actor pretending to be electrocuted, a certain amount of people,
libertarians by definition, are like, I'm not going to inflict violence on him against as well.
Up until now, he agreed to this for some weird reason. I'm not going to keep going. That's
pretty small percentage of the population that will stop. But the ones who keep going feel bad
about it. Most of them obviously show signs of stress. And Milgram talks at great length about
all the signs of that. And the weird thing of when somebody goes, I can't do this anymore,
the stress and anxiety just evaporate. It's like you broke your dog training.
Suddenly you're a person again. And then they're not all trembling. They're like,
yeah, I'm done. I'm not doing this anymore. And suddenly they relax and they sigh and they
stop trembling and crying. They're just like, congratulations, you reclaimed ownership of
yourself just in that little setting at that moment anyway. But to watch the power the dog
training has over people to make them be robots who will blindly commit evil. That is what the
training was for. And so to jump all the way back to the beginning of this video, when I
go, well, how will everything work if we're not beholden to authority? That is a bonkers response.
If if you're basically using that to argue, I'm totally beholden to authority because I'm not
quite sure how things would work if that is just as stupid and insane as saying, well, I don't
believe that I should be a free. I totally think I should be somebody else's slave unless
and until you can explain for me how everything will work. If I'm not a slave, that's bonkers.
That's just bonkers. And it's the natural response of most status. They don't they're not thinking these
things out. This isn't an intellectual response. It's an emotional response because all they know
is that's unfamiliar. A thing I'm just about finished the book. It's at 97,000 words and some at the
moment. I'm still going back and forth. I think I am going to include it on including a little
thing, just a paragraph or two, making fun of Stanley Milgram because he did those experiments.
He got a firsthand view and he wrote all about it. He's like, wow, it's kind of shocking how easily
you can get decent people to like do something where they think they're inflicting horrible pain,
maybe even life threatening electrocution on a complete stranger just because of the authority
failure told them to. Everyone's like, whoa, yeah, those, including him, like, whoa, those results
are kind of disturbing. Oh, yeah, maybe this is how like Nazi Germany happens and stuff.
So experiment is awesome. And he observes all these things. He's a psychologist,
so he's like control. We're going to control for that. Might this be a factor? How about
proximity to the victim? How about whether you hear the victim or he's there and you can see him?
How close or what if you have to actually hold his hand on the electrocution like so he does
hold those variations to see what it is. So he Milgram as a front row seat to the fact that
the belief in authority makes decent people into agents of evil. There's no other way to
put it. He almost put it exactly like that. And then he goes, well, of course, you know,
we need some authority. We have to obey some authority just because I said so.
He doesn't really elaborate. I think the one example he gives is like listening to a doctor
who's an authority on medicine. Like that's not even the same meaning of the word.
But he just this guy who just front row seat to the heinous destruction of the human soul
that is a direct result of people being trained to believe in authority
and feeling beholden to somebody outside of themselves.
A zillion variations showing, wow, this makes people into agents of evil.
Then he goes, well, of course, you know, we need some authority after about
to some authority. We need a legitimate authority. Didn't say why I didn't explain it.
Like, wow, even watching what you did in your own experiments wasn't enough to make him think,
why do we ever need this? That doesn't make any sense. That's bonkers. Even he wouldn't let go.
And I'm still going back and forth on whether to throw in a paragraph or two, just beating up on
Milgram for still not being able to see past his own indoctrination. Like Jay turns out the thing I
was taught to believe makes people like willing accomplices to profound evil. But I mean, of course,
I should still believe in that thing that I was taught to believe, even though I'm sitting here
watching the real world results of it, turning people into monsters.
But I mean, we need some of it just because because everybody knows you.
So anyway, so the book approaching humanity and our event approaching humanity on July 18th
basically tries to gently lead people, including normal people have never thought about these
things. Through the process of realizing, yeah, you, you own yourself, you're responsible for
yourself. You're, and you're stuck with that. Like there isn't an escape. There isn't a way
to make somebody else responsible for what you do. Oh, it's just following orders. Well,
if you're the one who did it, you're still the one who did it. So it sort of gently introduces
people to that and walks them through the various proofs and demonstrations that that's
the only sane way to be is realizing that your sovereign hate that term, but whatever,
your autonomous, you should be a, you know, you should exercise self determination and
self ownership and whatever phrases you want to use to describe that. And anything else is
bonkers. It's not just a bad idea in practical terms. It's insane. And so every time I hear
somebody say, well, if I shouldn't be insanely beholden to a bunch of lying psychopaths,
how will everything in the world work? It's like, that's really has nothing to do with it.
It's, it's just as silly as somebody saying, you know, Santa Claus isn't real.
Well, if Santa Claus isn't real, how do we make sure all the good kids
get presents on Christmas? What if they have poor parents or the parents forgot or something?
How can you guarantee that every child will get we know we need Santa Claus?
It doesn't stinking matter if you think we need Santa Claus. He doesn't exist.
It doesn't matter if you think humanity needs authority. It doesn't exist.
The entire notion is inherently insane. It's not just destructive on a practical level.
It doesn't just turn out badly. So the question of, well, will it work?
What does that even mean? Will it work for me to not be a slave of psychopaths?
You shouldn't be even if it didn't work. Of course, it works a thousand times better
than people feeling beholden to psychopaths. But that entire question is such a weird dodge
of actually looking at what the concept proves. So anyway, I just thought I'd do a rant about that
after being on with Larry Sharp. I'll try to put a link below to the
two hour discussion we have. So yeah, don't ask me whether it'll work
for you to not be somebody else's property. Even if it didn't, you still shouldn't be
somebody else's property. And whether or not you think it will work
for us to not bow to political psychopaths and feel beholden to whatever crap they make up,
whether you think that's going to work is irrelevant to morality and logic and rationality,
all of which dictate no, you don't have an obligation to ignore your own conscience
in favor of blindly obeying lunatics. So in the book and the event approaching humanity,
we will explain that in a more gentle, less frustrated way.
So in a way compatible with normal people, and we'll do it in fun, entertaining,
and informative ways. So if you can be in Sedona Saturday, July 18th, be there.
The main event will be like 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., I believe. It'll be chocked food full of goodies.
And I think people will much appreciate it, including people who don't think about these
things and have never heard about them before. And people who have. We want to make it
very worthwhile for everybody across the entire spectrum of how much you've thought about and
heard about and understand these things already. Or if you're somebody who's just like,
I'm just living my own life trying to mind my own business. But yeah, something's horribly wrong.
What is it? I know. I know. Show up on July 18th. And you'll know too.
If you can be there, be there. Yeehaw. If you're a Rose Channel subscriber,
you will probably get the whole thing live streamed. And if not, you'll get the whole thing edited
after the fact. And anybody shows up and longtime Rose Channel subscribers will be getting
copy of my new book, Approaching Humanity, at the event as part of the take a price.
And I will be mailing it to longtime subscribers of the Rose Channel as soon as I have it in my
possession. Yeehaw. Now go run your own life and be responsible for your own beliefs and thoughts
and words and actions. Is that too much to ask? Possibly.