Instead of Politics

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• Nian vs, Slate.................··.................·..·................·..····.......
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I. Natural Governrnent 5
Money: The Civil Agent 15
Mal'ket Evolution 21
Value and Announcement 27
Risk and Inconvenience 33
Principles of lnsUf'ance 39
II. The Artifice of Monopoly 47
The Politics of Monopoly 53
Redistribution of Capital 59
Licensing Monopolization 67
Monopolistic Doctrines 73
Ill. The Blackened Mc:wi<et 79
Corruption Monopoly 87
The Laborers· Paadise 95
Prohibition of Money 103
IV. The Faces of Tyranny 113
The Price of Price Control...........·.·+·.···..·.·....·.............·.·.·+·......1]9
Wage Politics 125
Collective Employment 131
Maxinlized IVllnlrnurnlsm 137
V. The Heart ofthe Beast 145
Free vs. Central Banking.......·+·.......·...+·.········.···...·..........15]
The Cause of Inflation 159
Perceptions of Finance 165
Intellectual Monopoly 171
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B. Property and Or-der- 181 Reform versus Revolution 393
I. The Noture of Pr-operty , 185 Antipolitics and the Constitution 401
forms ot Negation 191 The Death of Polttlcs 413
The Public Oornain 197
Natural Population 203
Ine ore for the Cure..........·...·......·.········+.····.····.....·.···+·+.......2]3
II. PoNutton = Collecttvlsrn 219
Man versus Extinction 229
Pollution Prevention Pays 241
Civilized infrastructure.............·..·++..++++++++++++++·+···············+···+····+.....2]
Ill. The Mysteries of War 261
The Moralrty of Mayhem 271
The Architectu.-e of Enmity 277
The Costs of Aggression 283
lntlmrdation lntlation 291
Sack-Door Militarization 299
IV. Elements of Security 307
Nonsurrendet'ablllty 315
Uncensured Clvllizatlon 323
The Question of Low 331
Marketing Defense 341
• Escope from Utopia 353
The Cult of Oenlocracy 361
The Paradox of Voting 367
Institutionalized Corruption 375
Full-Scale Privatization.......····++·+··.···.·····+·············.·····+.+······+··....,385
John Frederic Kosanke Instead of Politics
Introduction
Politics! Indeed our posterity will look back at us,
scratch their heads, and wonder aloud what planet we
were from. Surely it couldn't really be true that we let
our professional politicians convince us - through their
licensed media and tax funded schools - that they could
solve the problems of society by confiscating property
from some and giving it to others, or that they could
rewrite the laws of nature and create wealth for us by
printing paper money. And surely we didn't really go off
to war to kill and die for them, believing that "democra
cy" could be spread by violence.
But we were misled. Professional politicians seem to
have separated themselves from all humanity, and
found ingenious ways to overlord their fellow human
beings. But now that their direct link to the gods has
been severed, they are finding it increasingly difficult to
justify their subjugation of the individual to the collec
tive. In a grand finale of desperation, these now "secu
lar" pharaohs have left no stone unturned - using every
means at their disposal to control the thoughts and ac
tions of their subjects.
Even as we enter this 3rd millennium, many are still
persuaded that man is the problem and politics the so
lution. In fact, some people are convinced that mankind
will eliminate itselffrom planet earth - or even eliminate
the planet itself. But what is even worse, is that the
vast majority, like a herd of lemmings over a cliff, un
knowingly and energetically co-enslave themselves with
political collectivism - causing every conceivable form of
antihuman social suicide and it's carnage - while obedi
ently condemning the "selfish."
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Some simply imagine that civilization can be accom "Caesar" - to his own Appian cross. He can die, of
plished by compulsion. So they take aim at what they course, for he is no less mortal than the rest of us - and
are led to believe is a defective marketplace, inscribing no godlier. No one is morally required to give unto any
artificial laws through a scientifically designed political one who proclaims himself Caesar - or anoints himself
system that only requires "eternal vigilance." Since en god - because nothing that is stolen by Caesar belongs
lightened entrepreneurs have more humane and realis to Caesar. We will be his slaves no more, for we will no
tic solutions, self-seeking politicians must become even longer grant him the means to compel us. Nor will we
stealthier, markets are increasingly blackened, and ig be content to merely chain him down with some ingen
norance of enslavement to the collective becomes in iously designed Constitution, for he has shown that he
creasingly inevitable. Natural civilizing processes are can easily slither out of its grasp once he is given the
thus restricted, prevented, and even reversed, as this faintest glimmer of respectability. Whoever looks back
parasitical political class progressively and systematical with nostalgia on these evil days of the almighty state
ly criminalizes nature. will find himself once again at risk of being ensnared by
its irresistible enchantment.
So in publishing this booklet, my goal is to expose poli
tics for what it is, set the record straight, and thus per
mit mankind to see and prevent its own manipulation.
In this way, each can improve his own environment,
and the environments of many others in the process -
and without sacrifice. In such spirit, I dedicate my script
to man. For I have come to realize that civilization - the
process of becoming civil - is a very peaceful and natu
ral process that is propelled by unadulterated human
nature.
By demonstrating the most elementary market princi
ples, I will put the almighty state before the tribunal
and jury of contemporary man. I will show that intru
sive and confiscatory social artifices are not merely un
"'End poverty as we know it,'
necessary, but are the most dangerous and parasitical
'end war as we know it' - Iwish
of all inventions, and tend to provide increasingly toxic
somebody would end politics
medication for the symptoms of the infirmities they
themselves create. as we know it!"
I will do my part to nudge my fellow bearers of light to
join in my quest to forever affix this imposter - this
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ZIMan vs. State Instead of Politics I 3
I. Natural Government
Society is made up of individuals. No two are equal.
Each lives in a unique environment that he improves to
the extent he is able. He seeks to minimize the quantity
of time spent at social labor, and maximize free time
which can be spent as he desires. He thus explores for
ways to economize - where he considers the cost (ex
penditure of energy and time) to be great.
Today it is becoming increasingly obvious that the mar
ket, through its selfish nature, permits the corrective
process to occur. It naturally opposes the evils of dan
ger, inconvenience and unhappiness, and diminishes
them to the extent that competing providers are able to
improve the lives of many by attracting them as buyers
of their products and services.
Every person is both buyer and seller of goods and ser
vices. As a seller, he tends to become wealthy in pro
portion to the value of the good or service he provides
to businesses or directly to customers. In turn, the ex
tent of the wealth he generates in this way determines
his power as a buyer of different goods and services
from other sellers.
The market would not exist in a perfect world, because
it requires both natural and artificial dangers, inconven
iences, and other evils that it can diminish. The market
comes into being all by itself, and exists (without com
pulsion) for the sole purpose of extinguishing imperfec
tion. And to the extent that each individual is free to
improve his immediate environment - including the val-
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ue of the property he acquires - the greater environ tent that a service is popular (such as pollution control),
ment is also improved. if the "rights" to the provision of such service are exclu
sive, its providers will tend to propagate the corruption
But that's not all. Every problem or potential problem that seems to justify their own existence. That is, a
that an individual faces is a potential market - including monopolized defense will tend toward offense (that is,
security from aggression and its prevention. Individuals institutionalized aggression), while education or com
will naturally pay to get the goods that they need or munication monopolies will tend to spread misinfor
value - clean air and water, a beautiful environment, in mation, propaganda, and linguistic obscurity.
formation, amusement, &c, - unless politics gets in the
way. The more the good is needed, the more an indi Monopolist authorities have long preached that the
vidual is willing to pay for it. market is evil. Even recent English words have been
corrupted by political doctrine. If an individual was
And an unobstructed market is self-correcting. To the "crafty" - that is, specialized in a craft - he was abnor
extent that natural information markets are not cen mal, and best avoided. These forces similarly corrupted
sored by politicians, intrusions and deceptions are ex the words "cunning" (from the old English "cunnan,"
posed. If a seller tries to take advantage of a buyer, he which means cognizance), and "scheme," (from Greek
will naturally be exposed by his competitors. If any con "skhema." meaning form or figure). In reality, the crea
ceivable danger can be foreseen, someone will offer a tivity of the market opposes evil. And the state is inher
remedy - to the extent of its value. ently evil.
The objective of every market is the sale, so it does not Contrary to propagandist ideologies, the profit motive is
matter what the buyer looks like - or his personality. A the cause of societal improvement. Because security,
seller does not discriminate on the basis of the creed, convenience, accuracy of information, aesthetics, &c,
lifestyle, gender, or race of his buyers. To do so would are desired by potential paying customers, the market
cost him a sale. Prejudice is the exception - not the rule. naturally attempts to provide these valuable services.
To the extent that a region is uncensured, ethical busi
The natural market is the most natural and civil of gov ness conduct becomes naturally required of competitors
ernments. All market decisions are unanimous. Buyers - for their own survival. Politics, on the other hand,
vote with their cash. And to the extent that the market tends to corrupt everything it touches.
is free, bad or unnecessary products and services can
not continue to survive, because their distributors find it To the extent of competition, the evolution of goods and
increasingly difficult to find customers. services is toward safety, durability, and price reduction.
The competitors become more efficient and the "prod
When any service is provided by a monopolized regime uct" becomes less costly and better - tending toward a
(Part II.), its quality tends to diminish to the extent that longer service life (durability) and effortlessness of op
corrective competition is restricted. In fact, to the ex- eration (comfortability). Finally a product is superseded
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by a better one - of a different type. The demand for food (or hunt and gather) solely for his own consump
the old inferior product diminishes. tion, build his own house, fashion his own clothes, &c.
This is costly in many ways. The quantity of time and
When a window is broken, for a basic example, a specif energy which needs to be diverted to work (often with
ic imperfection is demonstrated in its design. In re local crude materials) and study (through trial and error)
sponse, the market (each competing individual producer) is unnecessarily excessive.
immediately offers many solutions such as a store with
in which an identical or similar replacement window can Thus individuals will tend to specialize (become expert)
be bought. The market also provides improvements: a in one product or service and trade with others who sell
more durable or noticeable window, artificial light (a a different good. This local economization increases effi
substitute for windows), forms of security against win ciency and reduces the cost of living for each trading
dow destroyers, &c. party - a net gain. It also gives individuals more time to
spend on themselves their friends and their families,
Of course, the loss of the old window - and its replace and more opportunities to concentrate on the improve
ment - will be an expense. Destruction of property can ment of their own sales and purchases.
not produce a net gain by any logic. (Some advocates
of war actually claim that societies gain from destruc Each individual's unique values determine the ways that
tion.) Rather, the ability to purchase an alternative to he spends his time for both leisure and work. Each indi
the old type of window reduces future costs for those vidual's unique contribution to society as buyer, seller,
who purchase windows (an investment). Those whose producer, and consumer - along with his reputation for
windows are actually broken suffer. honesty, fairness, industriousness - determines his val
ue to society and thus the extent to which he advances
Many individuals are employed in a long chain of trans socially and economically in a free society.
actions bringing each good to market. This chain in
cludes designers, manufacturers, transporters, sales Each individual must think for himself and pay his own
men, and announcers, (as well as the designers and way. To the extent that he lives at the expense of oth
manufacturers, &c of the tools, transport equipment, &c, ers, he becomes dependent on them. To the extent that
for that good). Such trade specialization reduces many others think for him, his values become meaningless
inconveniences- and thus the net cost. Elimination of and his control over his personal economy is diminished.
(or interference with) any of the elements can eliminate In a free society, each individual can control his own
production or further increase costs. Ultimate power is destiny. In a politicized society, his destiny is in the
dictated by the individual buyer's cash. hands of groups.
In order for individuals to reduce dependence without
the market, they would all be required to duplicate each
others actions. Each would need to grow all of his own
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