Frequently Badgered Questions Part 3: On Views
January 19, 2011

Part 1: On Me  /  Part 2: On Diet  /  Part 3: On Views  /  Vege-Fruitarianism

• You said “       ” so you’re a conservative, right? You said “       ” so you’re a liberal, right?

No, dummy. Stop trying to pin others down within your own realm of idiocy. Labels typically suck, because there’s always baggage attached to them that will confuse people for whom rational thought is itself a monumental task. I’d like only to have to call myself “human,” but this word has the most baggage of all, what with most of us being assholes, imbeciles, or both. I suppose “anarchist” is a fairly accurate term for my philosophical/political viewpoint, but it’s another heavy baggage word, so most will assume it means I want to wear a black ski mask and throw Molotov cocktails in the city streets. All I really want is for you to leave me the fuck alone, a favor that I’m glad to return. “Voluntaryist” or “Anarcho-capitalist” might be better niche-specific terms for my general outlook. Or just “that asshole that eats meat.”

I think self-ownership, or individual sovereignty, would be the only rational way to maintain any semblance of society. I say “would be” because it doesn’t exist, nor is it likely ever to. Government by its nature is anti-life and anti-productivity. It’s continued existence is inexplicable in an age where so many aspects of life are so rapidly being decentralized. But government, like any parasitic institution, exists for the express purpose of its own perpetuation, despite the fact that its existence is detrimental to all positive change and evolution. If, for its own sake, it could stop the world from turning, it would. Until this is realized on a grand scale, which will happen around never, we are doomed. So are the government institutions, as they inevitably subdue themselves when not done in by external forces, but they are unfortunately always replaced with some similar dog and pony show purporting to be something new and different.

• You’ve made mocking references to religion, so what, you’re an atheist?

I’m not anything, again, other than a human being. A human being that doesn’t believe in fairy tales. We’re back to the label-game, but “agnostic” would be the only generic term I’m comfortable with. I think religions, like all institutions, are pure bullshit. They are mechanisms for control and exploitation. They separate man from nature, and reinforce this separation by teaching mankind to deny its very nature. I don’t claim that no good comes from religion, however, I don’t particularly care for good that is borne incidentally of bullshit.

I was raised Catholic, but, unlike many reactionary anti-religious zealots (the one’s who are still actually religious and can’t sort through the internal tumult their attachment to faith creates), my refutation of religion was not triggered by any negative experience with the church or with my parents. I never got my Little Hulkamaniac touched by a priest (only by a male doctor in women’s shoes), and I didn’t feel oppressed by my parents or their religious indoctrination of me. Over the last few years as I’ve sought truth in all aspects of life, I randomly stumbled into information I’d never before seen or considered about the origins of Christianity. I’ll refrain from the history lesson, but, in a short order of time, I went from a non-practicing man of faith who believed if he died at that moment he would burn eternally in hell, to a rational man of reality that realized faith is the absence of reason and its practice is that of insanity. I hadn’t set out to reject my faith; I had no plan or desire to do so, but as I learned to open my mind and not block out logic that defied my preset worldview, notions of religion quickly crumbled.

So do I believe in God? I can’t answer that, because the existence or non-existence of God, whatever that is, is unprovable and indefinable. I believe it’s the height of arrogance to insist on defining that that cannot be defined. This is what most religious peoples do. I imagine that there is a spiritual dimension, and I feel more deeply connected to something, indefinable though it is, now more than ever before, but, again, these things cannot be proved or disproved, and begin to border on faith.

It all boils down to “I don’t know.” If I’ve learned anything through the truth seeking, nutritional, philosophical journey I’ve been on, it’s that most people fear that three-worded admission above all else, and until one becomes comfortable with the fact that, at the end of the day, they know almost nothing - they can’t seriously be considered adults.

• You mention how bad education is a lot? What’s up? You don’t think kids should receive an education?

The comments I make are in reference to how bad standard American education is - not education unto itself. I think you should receive remedial one-on-one instruction if that’s the best question you can ask based on anything I’ve said about education. Standard American education is what I have experience with, as a student and as a payrolled lackey, and it is an abomination beyond words. Kids should receive an education - but one that’s worth their while. One, also, not funded via government theft and, in turn, subject to the whim of agenda-driven government dolts. There is little education in this country. What exists, largely, is indoctrination, manipulation, and distraction. The primary goal of American public education is to prevent the development of a thought process. Real education would encourage and develop an effective, original, critical thought process. It would result in a society of actual adults possessing the ability to think for themselves and avoid being programmed by institutional forces. It would, in short, fuck the status quo. And we can’t have that - it would be problematic for our owners. Education must remain exclusively non-educational if we are to maintain this harmonious society of ignorantly blissful servants being herded and preyed upon by a parasitic ruling class they believe to be concerned public servants. The first step in educating a child (or anyone, for that matter) is directly out the door of any public/standard American “education” facility.

• Finally…

More often than not, the questions that float in here are either already answered somewhere on the site - this is your cue to use the search function - or dealt with via the endless links I provide throughout my posts. There is a full list of worthwhile links in the sidebar, but each individual post contains topical links that expand upon whatever it is I’m discussing - this is your cue to follow the f’ing links. Most of you already do this, as I’ve received emails thanking me for changing someone’s life via the information found at the other end of the links I toss out. All I’m doing is linking. Thank you guys for possessing the ability to click a mouse and expand your perspective. I appreciate all the sane feedback, encourage any and all questions that haven’t been addressed anywhere, and I truly enjoy the continued back-and-forth with all the hardcore UnleashTheBeefers that actually get it. Shit, I think I just officially coined a term for the UTB fan base. Does this mean I’ve jumped the shark? It didn’t - until I actually used the expression “jump the shark.” What a shit phrase.

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