[Ed. note: This article is by Alan Lynch, a TDV reader]
I am a strong advocate of keeping language simple. I think it’s really important to tailor your use of language to your audience. It would be pointless using complex language to a group of children. I think it is wise to adjust your articulation and language skills to the audience you are directing it to. Otherwise, you will all have wasted your time. Imagine trying to explain the phrase ‘Quantitative Easing’ to a group of five-years-olds. For that matter, imagine trying to explain the phrase to over 90% of the population. They have no idea what it means. I mean, neither do lots of academic economists. Try saying: “Yeah, Quantitative Easing just means printing more money or creating more credit for people”. In the technological age we are in, they can just type the numbers into a computer. In fact, they are already trying to stop you using cash, in favour of your plastic card – much easier to track transactions. Here is an interesting post about people from Louisiana being unable to use cash for second hand sales goods: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111019/17424316421/louisiana-makes-it-illegal-to-use-cash-secondhand-sales.shtml
So, we can deduce that Quantitative Easing is an increase in the supply of credit, whether that credit is digital or paper. This can be further broken down too. Credit, in the current system, equals debt; debt, which equals being a slave to the creditors. Creditors equals individuals, which means, a slave to individuals. This is like algebra. Most words can be broken down into their simpler etymology. If you remove the concepts and get to real physical and tangible objects, you will find the real meaning.
TAX
Let’s try Taxation. Let us start by reducing it to ‘tax' to make it singular. This is another made up word, taxation. It means THEFT. Tax is basically the collective people pooling their money into a big account to use to pay for services they think people will need. For example roads, health, social security, police, fire, schools. I’m fine with that. If people want to do this, that’s great. But it needs to be a free choice. You should have the free will to decide where you pool your resources (money) too. You may not want to pay for healthcare, as you feel you will never use that service. Great! But to force us all to pay for these services is morally wrong. Just because YOU want policing doesn't mean that I want that service. Therefore, should I be forced to subsidize what YOU want? So, you refuse to pay for something that you do not want, what will happen? Simple: you will be locked up. This will be after countless letters, home visits, and court appearances. But, if you do resist, you will be placed in prison or shot (if you resist arrest). Therefore, it must be theft. You could then deduce that theft is force; as you would need to use force to commit theft. So, TAX = FORCE.
IMMIGRATION
There is no such thing as immigration. Again, it is just a made-up word. It just means moving from one geographical area to another. Immigration is to moving as taxation is to theft. Immigration – individuals that move from one geographical location to another location. It is not defined as immigration if I move house to another area. There is no difference whatsoever. The only thing that has happened is the powers that be have placed these imaginary boundaries around their tax farms. Then they have employed people in roles of ‘Border Control’ staff, which investigate to ensure you have the correct pieces of paper and to check your personal possessions, before entrance is granted. Do some people believe that passports and these occupations were around in the pre-1900 era? However, they have managed to cause fear into people by, again, creating incidents and calling them ‘terror attacks’. Or, by blaming unemployment, on these so called ‘immigrants’. ”They have stolen all the jobs”, I hear people say. The PTB have managed to get people to actually agree with them on these polices by striking fear into them and from the indoctrination people have received.
CONCLUSION
We are really losing the virtues of living life passionately. The sense of taking responsibility for oneself, and one's actions, seems to have diminished. If I like to gamble and I lose all my money, then I am responsible for that action. I cannot pass the blame or the loss onto my fellow man, woman or child. Well this is what happens today. The elites privatise their gains while socialising their losses. The people that lose are YOU and I.
We need to start calling things by their real, objective names. If people are not corrected on these terms, and they go around sprouting untruths, then we are doomed as a species. Think about how much money is spent on war, while people all over the world die of starvation. The good earth is rich and nobody should be dying of malnutrition or from the elements. It is such a horrible thought to think about, but it’s the truth.
We have much work to do. Some of us are blessed with this understanding and power, if we do not start to use this ability, we will lose. Start speaking the truth to friends and family and in time the world may be a wonderful place with voluntary relationships and wonders that we can only dream of.
This speech is from ‘The Great Dictator’ from 1940. He is pretty much on the button, and really strikes a chord with reality. A very motivating speech.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK2WJd5bXFg
I think it is imperative that we start to use the meaning of words as they were intended to be used. Keep things simple and look for words that are cloaked.
All the best,
Alan
Alan Lynch lives in Birmingham, UK and works as a Firefighter and operates a Birmingham based driving school. Alan is into philosophy, anarchism, free-markets and voluntary interactions.
