Tyrants HATE This 500 Year Old Trick for Ending Tyranny

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Please read the book. Go back to the actual source material. I'm telling you this is not a big book It will not take you long to get through it and you will be a richer and better person for having gone through it Even if you do disagree with it You will have a better understanding of what the argument is and what it rests on You're listening to the Côte report How is it that a group of 535 congressmen can control the lives of 330 million Americans? How is it that one man named Joseph Can start millions of Ukrainians or one man named eight of murder millions? How can a man named Franklin Kidnap and in turn hundreds of thousands of Japanese Americans while a man named Winston Murders millions with a royal air force welcome to Keith Knight don't tread on anyone today We will be discussing the politics of obedience the discourse of voluntary servitude with James Corbett of Corbett report.com To must-see videos of James one is called who is Bill Gates Terrific and the other is the secret life of Timothy McVeigh. You'll see the links below James Thank you for your time. Thank you for having me on and might I just interject that I'm very jealous of your copy of the discourse of voluntary Because I got one of these ridiculous oversized huge print editions for the legally blind for some reason So I want a nice sleek copy. I could carry around in my pocket What And you have to hide everything you believe in these ones are really nice to what to keep To keep in your keep in your back pocket So by the way, let's start off with the name of the author. What is this author's name? I'm gonna take a shot. I think it's ATN day labote I tried asking Jay not very happy. I close enough right? Well, okay. Let's let's go from the Marie Rothbard introduction The footnote are the very first footnote on the very first page Properly pronounced not as might be thought Laboe c but rather Labouetti with the hard t as it was pronounced in the perigord dialect of the region in which Labouetti lived The definitive discussion of the proper pronunciation may be found in Paul Bonifong Completed in the bitbwetti pages 385 86 of course of course Marie Rothbard has the reference from some you know 100-year-old book to the exact page number of where you can find the definitive discussion of the pronunciation Anyway, I found that helpful of course because that is a question that our Anglicized tongues would have some some difficulty with this Call them whatever you want, but ATN de Labouetti is apparently the proper pronunciation Terrific. Let's now that we know the author's name. Let's get into the content Starting on page 42 wait wait wait before we start. Yeah before we start. May I interject? I just want to point out that you you got in touch with me a couple weeks ago to see if I was interested in the conversation and one of the possible conversations you put on the table was a discussion of this book and I jumped at the chance precisely because for people who do not know the discourse of voluntary servitude is a 500-year-old text that is Every bit as relevant to the problems we face today as it was 500 years ago as it would have been a thousand years before that or a thousand years from Hence it this is absolutely timeless Incredibly important and gets to the root of the problem and the solution all in one swift blow And this is a short book you can read this easily So I suggest anyone out there who hasn't read it yet. Please do so you don't even have to buy a copy It is completely available for free in any ebook form you want online. So please read this book Totally Totally agree there. So on page 42 after the introduction he says for the present I should To understand how it happens that so many men so many villages so many cities so many nations sometimes suffer Under a single tyrant who has no power who has no more power than the power they give them who was able to harm them Only to the extent to which they have the willingness to bear with him who could do them absolutely no injury Unless they preferred to put up with him rather than contradict him surely a striking situation James is it the courage or desire? What is he say in here? Yes, let's let's get right to the heart of this because this is the key and central insight of this entire text and For me the money quote is this He's talking about why people put up with tyranny and suffer under it and he says they the people suffer plundering Wantedness cruelty not from an army not from a barbarian horde on account of whom they must shed their blood and sacrifice their lives But from a single man not from a hercules nor from a samsin but from a single little man Too frequently this same little man is the most cowardly and effeminate in the nation a stranger to the powder of battle and hesitant on the Sans of the tournament not only without energy to direct men by force But with hardly enough virility to bed with a common woman Shall we call subjection to such a leader cowardice? Shall we say that those who serve him are cowardly and faint-hearted if two if three if four Do not defend themselves from the one we might call that circumstance surprising But nevertheless conceivable in such a case one might be justified in suspecting a lack of courage But if a hundred if a thousand endure the caprice of a single man Should we not rather say that they lack not the courage but the desire to rise against him And that such an attitude indicates indifference rather than cowardice this is the key Central insight of this text. This is the takeaway that it is not fear It is not fear that keeps people in check. Let me say that again It is not fear that keeps people from rising up against oppressors and oppressive regimes It is acceptance Consent willing desire to participate in the system of oppression and the only thing that can truly end that oppression is Is the easiest thing of all which is to stop Desiring it Well, you would think it's the easiest thing to all of all but as I think is one of the key Central tenets of my work the one of the most important things that can be done is the revolution of the mind Because we have so completely internalized the structures of power and the oppression From above that we have come to not only think that that is acceptable But to actually desire to have those systems of oppression That is the central insight that the Laboidi comes up with here and that Absolutely, this is the key to solving the problem of tyranny of all sorts is to stop obeying Stop going along with it. This is not about fear. There is nothing to fear from in this case as the laboidi is writing about as the The dictates of a single man in the case of our modern enlightened democratic age It's the caprices of a few hundred elected officials who are our servants and all of the other garbage that are Is spewed to justify their rule over us We do not have to consent we do not have to comply this is the central fundamental tenet of the idea of Independence celebrated every independence day, right? It we didn't know what needed any permission But from the crown in order to rise up and declare their own country. No, we do this We take this stand it is it is with an hour right to claim our own powers It's such a simple thing, but it's so Difficult to get people to see And this is I think the central part of the part one of this book is Laboidi hammering this home time and time again saying that obviously there is no need of fighting to overcome this single tyrant for He is automatically defeated if the country refuses consent to its own enslavement It is not necessary to deprive him of anything, but simply to give him nothing There is no need that the country make an effort to do anything for itself Provided it does nothing against itself And in order to have liberty nothing more is needed than to long for it If only a simple act of the will is necessary is there any nation in the world that considers a single wish too high a price to pay in order to recover rights Which it ought to be ready to redeem at the cost of its blood Right such that their loss might must bring all men of honor to the point of feeling life to be unendurable and death itself a deliverance He does go on on this point and and elaborates it in the number of important ways in part one But this is the central insight of this work And I really hope people really internalize this and understand the incredibly powerful ramifications of this insight and the Fundamental importance of disobedience Absolutely the um often you'll get the critique of well Of course they're in charge. They have the power because they have the military So the commander in chief is in charge of this a bunch of people with a bunch of tanks So obviously that's where power comes from not from you know the minds of the masses how do you respond? Well first of all even if we're just going to go with real politique We should know that it is in fact Not the commander in chief who commands the army it is almost in all situations the other way around It is obviously the men with the guns and the desire and ability to use them who are commanding the country And usually the president or what at whatever Title you want to confer on that person. It's just the fig leaf of oh look here's the the separate distance that makes this all justified But no, it's generally speaking in almost all societies throughout almost all of human history. It is the military leaders who are Calling the shots more so but then of course you get to the deeper level of reality in which no It is the men paying the bills of the soldiers who are really the ones in charge and who's the ones paying the bills of the soldiers It is the bankers creating the money out of nothing So there are several layers deep that you can go as to who is really pulling the strings here But the point is that these Politicians that are paraded out in front of us are not in charge the commander in chief is not in charge of the of the country Little in the military And that everyone just automatically well of course he's the commander So we all have to obey him and all the generals are are cowering in fear of this Fitchage violent commander in chief. No again. This is the point that what will the body is making? No, this situation does not apply because Absolutely any one of these military men could easily rise up and kill this commander in chief at any time and take the power for themselves Why don't they do that? And that is because this is a system that is based on Subjection to leadership in people's minds and he goes on in part three to make an exceptionally important point about why This is the case why do people go along with this? It's not simply again. It's not fear and it's But what is what is the desire? What do people actually get out of it? And he does have an answer to that But I won't jump the gun because we're going through this. I assume chronologically But that's an important point too. No the commander in chief is not commander in In any real sense. It's only in the minds of the people who listen to his dictates correct That point of view you know, well he runs the military you has all the guns does not account for Why the military listens to this person called the president and not that guy called the pope and why they follow this thing called Constitution and not Dianetics by Elron Hubbard. I mean you don't have the masses saying well you have to obey Dianetics you have to abide by the ten commandments It's this it's this set of rules and this is the key insight that he gets is that it really is in the mind of the masses still Even whether it's dictatorship or a menarchist state it still is in the minds of the masses And on page 60 he goes into how do the few the single one create the legitimacy in the minds of the masses Saying it is true that in the beginning men submit under constraint and by force But those who come after them obey without regret and fulfillingly what the apprentice Sessers had done because they had to nevertheless it is clear enough that the powerful influence of custom is in no respect More compelling than in this namely habituation to subjugation custom becomes the first reason for voluntary servitude response to custom being the first reason of voluntary servitude yes again such an incredibly profound and important point that seems so simplistic once you realize it but yes Humans are very adaptable creatures to whatever social context they are put into this is the entire point of social engineering This is how our society can be moved from fundamental bedrock principles that were held steadfastly by people A century ago that people fought and died for in previous wars Completely disregarded and completely casted the wayside now whether that's to do with whatever rights from Freedom from search and seizure and things that oh, you know, whatever the NSA can do whatever it wants and they're keeping us Say from the bad guys things that would have been literally unthinkable in our grandparents generation are now completely 100% taken for granted. Why is that it's because people are adaptable? They get used to certain social contexts and conditions and they are brought up in certain ways And they start to think it's normal He makes this point repeatedly in part two where he's talking about different ways people can be essentially habituated Into tyranny if you're raised in the system where Well, this is the way it's always been we listen to the leader and here's the leader Then it's almost impossible to imagine any other way I mean, this is just how human society works isn't it Because unfortunately not only can we be habituated to certain patterns of thought we can also It more insidiously we can come to believe that that is in fact natural That that is the only way to conceptualize this now I like in the introduction to this that Murray Rothbard points out that in fact that is a in some ways it's a hopeful thing because if Tyranny were to be eliminated if we could get rid of these governments that seek to oppress us And then it would be very quickly that people would be habituated into freedom And they would think the idea of instituting a government over men would be just so stupid and unthinkable How did people ever believe that we could be habituated into that line of thought But unfortunately we do not live in such a system So people are enslaved enslaved in their minds and I very much like the the classical illusion that he gives In this regard where he talks about like surges Um He said like surges the log giver of sparta is reported to have reared two dogs at the same time By fattening one in the kitchen and training the other in the fields to the sound of the bugle and the horn thereby to demonstrate to the Lesadimidimdemonians sorry my classical Okay, it took a antiquity knowledge is not that great. Let lacedimonians that men too Developed according to their early habits. He set the two dogs in the open marketplace and between them He placed a bowl of soup and a hair one ran to the bowl of soup the other to the hair Yet they were as he maintained born brothers of the same parents And this again is showing that people can be habituated into different entire different lifestyles that bring with them different ideas different forms of action that will ultimately Foster us and develop us into different people based on the way that we are raised and if we are raised with the ever loving nanny state Always there to give you whatever you need at any time And should you ever feel uncomfortable? Don't worry mommy mommy government will come and wipe your nose for you or wipe your bottom for you But daddy government will come along and tell you what to do if you ever step out of line That's the carrot and stick which is we are raised in in this nanny state system um, and that leads to essentially fatted calves Who go along with that system and when they are put in that situation look you can strive for this and you can achieve it or here It is in a little plate for you and we'll just feed it to you Whatever gruel we give you you'll accept and most people have been abituated to just accept the gruel because it's there and well Less is the way it happens we get fed by mommy government and that's literal as well as figurative of course But I think it speaks to the point that people people themselves can be habituated into different forms of action Or inaction based on the way that they are raised it is all about custom Correct and the longer you've been doing the custom the harder it is as lu rakwa likes to say There's no nice way to tell someone they believe to lie for 10 20 30 50 60 years Those 1,000 Facebook posts that those are all irrelevant like oh gosh my brain has to make up an excuse for why For why I was right He goes on to say the the second reason that people believe in the legitimacy of a king or the few ruling the many Doing the masses into believing their rule is wise just and benevolent He says on page 66 they never undertake an unjust policy Even one of some importance without profasing it with some pretty speech concerning the public welfare and the common good James are you familiar with 500 years later well-fair and the common good being used to justify Statism and an increase in aggression against peaceful people. Yeah. Yeah. Where have I heard that to that language invoked? Oh wait every time a politician opens their mouths, right? I was gonna say when have we not heard? The only thing that it's from from Gavin Newsom to George Bush to Newt Gingrich it's it's their go-to Right and if anyone wants a deconstruction of that in a I want to say pithy at least humorous way Of course they can turn to the writings and observations of uh His name is going to escape me every election is an advanced auction on on stolen goods HL Manken HL Manken yes, thank you Manken Uh, who has very cynical things to say about democracy and its real worth But yes again, this is an important insight for 500 years ago that of course The yes the people who want to rule over you will always give sort of lip service to the sorts of things that people can believe in as a nice fluffy ideal Does anyone really believe in them though? I think that's the question I mean of course we can sit here and be cynical and say well, you know, they're just lying to you But do you think there's anyone out there with two brain cells to rub together that doesn't realize that at this point that these people are just selling you a load of garbage that will Smooth things over for them But sometimes again some people want to believe that they want at they want to at least have some easy Easy thing that they can point to to say look they're gonna provide for us. They they care about us So let's do what they say because it's an easy excuse for doing what they say and I think that's probably going to more towards the deeper Psychological meaning which again raises the question of why what do people get out of this system of tyranny that That that seems to benefit them enough that they will play these mental games with themselves And sometimes it's harder than others like if you're not accustomed to shutting down gyms and build a blasio going to the gym a couple days later or shutting down wineries and Gavin Newsom's winery thriving I mean, then it's sort of like a peek into a window of Narnia. It's like oh well look at that That's totally unjust. It's really hard to say war is mass murder taxation is theft Right the draft is slavery yada that's so hard to you know mix But when it's like all right, if I like my health care, I can keep it you promise. Okay. I lost it. Okay. This I should be able to process Some are a lot easier than others He then goes into divinity and adoration on page 70 Tyrants in order to strengthen their power have made every effort to train their people Their people not only in obedience and civility toward themselves, but also in adoration I see this so often with admiring the politicians where they're either holding the baby or they're so nice or they're so comforting or they're so kind and virtuous and all these other things Do you still see divinity and adoration today? Absolutely yes, and in fact This actually goes to the heart of the presentation that I made at an archipocal this year About sort of the divine nature of the state and the fact that it is not Simply an analogy there is actually a deeper psychological Issue going on between our need for religion and religious adoration and our need for government There is a real connection an actual historical linkage there that I went through in my presentation That hopefully will be released to the general public soon and when it is my viewers will know about it But yes, absolutely the the divine and religious iconography surrounding the divine nature of these presidents and prime ministers these leaders Persists to this day anyone can see any number of examples of that uh And obviously in the American political context there is uh there's always the I mean every single president that in my entire life I've seen there's the picture of them with the kind of this presidential seal around their head that looks like a crown or A halo kind of thing that there's always that kind of imagery But now it's even gotten stupider in the last few years because of course everything's gotten stupider in the past few years And we have the literal like prayer candles and votaries and things for um Ginsberg or Molar remember when muller was going to be the big saint who was going to deliver us from the evil of trump and everything and people were literally praying to him with their literal Voto candles and everything it's just Nonsense, but yes absolute. I mean it doesn't even have to go that far But I think that shows that there is a linkage in in the people's minds the the adoration the divine almost praying to the state But again, it doesn't have to literally go that far people of course do put these people up on pedestals And that's one of the things about the whole trump phenomenon Although obviously I have no I don't care about trump at all what's what's so ever and I he's just another part of the clique that Playing his own game, but one thing that I I appreciate about the trump phenomenon is that it it it's almost It's almost a desecration of the thing that the state is told most valuable the sacred office of the president This is a holy man who who's so much above the political for any so he he walks on water that they praise this office Of the president trump has desecrated that I don't I don't think the p tape was real But in a certain sense he's peeing all over the oval office and this drives Statists insane with anger because how dare you desecrate this holy office of the president in my mind Hey great. Hey, he's just showing that this is all iconography. It's all in your mind Your idiots for believing that it's anything other than show business spectacle and uh if anything good comes out of the this Trump era, I think that's it Yeah, you you definitely saw that in the debates when he goes Marco implied if my hands are small something else is small I can tell you there's no problem there everyone was like oh my god, what's happening? And I'm like finally a candidate I could get behind it's like I'd prefer logic and reason and non aggression But if I can't get that deligitimizing the state is kind of a nice substitute um He goes on to discuss distraction and bribes on page 65 saying that Please farces spectacles gladiator strange beasts metals pictures and other such opiates These were for ancient peoples the bait towards slavery the price of their liberty the instruments of tyranny The fool going on to say the fools did not realize they were merely recovering a portion of their stolen property As opposed to look at the great thing that the state inherently creates ending with the mob has always behaved in this way Eagierly open to bribes that is a mankin quote uh And before he existed if I ever heard one thoughts on distractions bribes bread and circuses. Yes exactly. Yes um So the bribes I think goes to the the heart of what he's getting out in part three sort of why does the system continue to function but As to the bread and circuses obviously this is a I mean an old tactic that we've heard about since since Roman times But I think uh LeBody really articulates it quite well and gets to the heart of this incredibly important But easy way of placating so much of the masses and he again turns to antiquity for his story says This method method tyrants use of stiltifying their subjects cannot be more clearly observed Then in what Cyrus did with the Lydians after he had taken sardis their chief city and had at his mercy the captured Their fabulously rich king when news was brought to him that the people of sardis had rebelled It would have been easy for him to reduce them by force But being unwilling either to sack such a fine city or to maintain an army there to police it He thought of an unusual expedient for reducing it He established in it brothels taverns and public games and issued the proclamation that the inhabitants were to enjoy them He found this type of he found this type of garrison so effective that he never again had to draw the sword Against the Lydians and that is the tactic in a nutshell It is absolutely bread and circuses distractions getting people to not even think about rebelling and whatever politics Who cares about any of that stuff? I've got this entertainment out here for me and Obviously that continues to be used to this day Devastatingly effectively perhaps the best way of really understanding it in that sort of hyper Hyper realized way that can only happen in science fiction is through brave new world It is that that world of the soma and all of the distractions that just keep people 100% content with their station that they have been assigned to in life and it's again. This is not a Startlingly original insight. It's not something that people haven't noticed before but I think LeBody puts it perfectly succinctly here Alrighty in short authority can only be grounded in the acceptance of its subjects It need not be active but passive so that is another interesting insight that we have here So it's not It's because people are constantly going out and waving flags There's a large portion of people that just it's just their default. It's sort of their custom I guess we're back to already I thought I thought that was really interesting that it need not be active participation I'm a voter. I mean most people don't vote in America But the average person sees the state as a legitimate institution. They pass a law You have to abide by it if they repeal it then you can do it But until then they have the right to cage you so that is definitely getting into the Mindset there any comments on that short summary that Rothbard provides Well in fact, um what you just stated there uh as the way that people think of law and law making and law giving Is exact actually goes to this heart of what we're talking about if people be coming accustomed to do something So that they naturalize it and can't even conceive that it can be done in a different way because The the model that we have in our current society is yes There are these lawmakers these legislators who go into their sacred hall of the legislator Well the legislature and they pass this law and it becomes the law of vland and then it must be enforced And that's the way that we think of laws being created at this point whereas of course There are natural law and common law systems that have existed for much longer than this particular model of law coming from A legislature and a lawmaker who comes in and writes sign something on a piece of paper and that becomes law If people want more elaboration on that I would suggest they check out the the the writings and speeches of Stefan Kancella who goes through this legal history In greater detail and points out yeah, there are there are different legal systems and the idea that Legislature is going in right laws on pieces of paper and that becomes law is A system that we are accustomed to now so much so that people believe that is what lawmaking is Whereas no no no there is there's a completely different system that doesn't develop through cases that are tried and then Decisions are made and that becomes case law and it builds on each other And of course it's done in a community that that has a tradition behind it So there is a common law tradition that's a very different thing and again because people don't have their mindset in that They've become accustomed to this idea that well How can we have laws without the lawmaker or law makers who are have the magical pen that can Magically sign the magic piece of paper that magically becomes law there's no other way to do it Well actually there is and it's been around for thousands of years It's just you don't know about it Why don't you know about it because you were never taught about it? Why weren't you taught about it because it's in the interests of the people who want those positions of power Not to let you understand that there are ways to do this without those positions of power existing And that's one that you kind of should be able to see I mean you go from Arizona to California like I did the other day And I didn't have to go read all the California laws I think I think I've read one law and it was This immigration law in Arizona that everyone was up in arms about for three weeks and then on to something else after I haven't read the laws. I don't know where it says don't murder Don't steal and all this other stuff But there is a custom of these people ought to go to jail here are some pieces of I just wonder how many pieces of legislation the average person has read Virtually zero boat. We're able to go to other countries and it all works out without saying needing someone to write down words of What we do when when we get there? So as far as solutions goes With with drawing consent and delegitimizing the state so one two people I think are great at this Michael humor professor at University of Boulder, Colorado wrote the problem of political authority and examination on the right to rule and the duty to obey Where he just uses common sense morality saying Is it okay if a look Corbett report is a great spot that has a lot of information And really benefits people is it okay if we force people to fund it against their will with the threat of caging them Even though it's a great source of educational information no doubt there Do we have the right to force people do we have the right to conscript them into working against their will even if it is great Well, no and for the same reason Yes, we do already on my magic piece of paper that you have to give me money to fund the Corbett report and that will make it law Yeah, of course, so finally Just as that last the other one is a gentleman named larkin roast who I have had 10 hours of conversation with literally on this show Where he says it's important to apply yourself Consistently to the state for example if you don't have the right to do something How do you have the right to vote for a king or president or politician to do it on your bath? If it's murder for you to do it Well you joining a group called the military group and putting on camouflage now it's okay No, of course not joint neither is joining a group called congress My favorite solution that you have brought to the table or not brought to the table But you've really made light of his laughing at tyrants what is laughing at tyrants? I'm so glad you brought that up actually. Yes, I mean we have to delegitimize especially in the minds of people who still hold reverence for these sacred offices We have to delegitimize the state and its role in society And there are many ways to do that and you've pointed out a couple of important ones there through logic and reason and evidence and talking to people and Moralizing and understanding the roots of what we believe and why we believe it but Human beings are not robots. We do not function simply on logic You know a plus b equals c goes in and the oh the state doesn't exist anymore That's generally not how it's going to happen and incredibly effective and incredibly powerful tool Against tyranny is satirizing and mocking these would be kings and emperors and gods among us who have these special powers No, they are ordinary people so actually something that was exceptionally effective I don't know what you were quoting at the very beginning But calling these people franklin and winston and Joseph rather than President or you know emperor or giving them these titles and giving them reverence and full names No, they're just men. They're just average men and in fact As la body says there don't even have the virility to bed the common woman kind of thing These are yeah, these are objects of ridicule and satire and that is an exceptionally important and effective way of Delegitimizing the state in people's minds That is the point of laughing at tyrants and I'm glad you pointed that out because I just recently reposted Some of my old material including some of my old satirizing material just making fun of these politicians And of course inevitably every time I ever do anything with satire with mockery with humor Oh James. Oh, why do you have to descend to this level? You're usually so rational and no, this is an exceptionally important point And part of who we are as human beings how we function and and really important tool in our tool belt that we should not discard Because oh, we have to be perfectly Reasonable and rational and make our arguments and in formal logic at all times. No, no, no, no, no We have to speak to people's understanding that has always existed satire has always been an exceptionally important part of undermining power structures and that's why it is In every authoritarian structure it is outlawed. It is banned They try to get rid of it. They chop people's heads off for for doing that There's a reason for that because it's an important way of undermining I want to speak while we're on solutions also to an important point that That Rothbard points out in his introduction where he talks about the prime task of education Educating people about the real nature of these These the state the government But he he puts it in an important light. He says the prime task of education then is not simply abstract insight into governmental errors in advancing the general welfare But the bamboozling the public on the entire nature and procedures of the despotic state in that task Labwadi also speaks to us in his stress on the importance of a perceptive Vanguard elite of libertarian and anti-statist intellectuals The role of this cadre to grasp the essence of statism and to desanctify the state in the eyes and minds of the rest of the population Is crucial to the potential success of any movement to bring about a free society It becomes therefore a prime libertarian task to discover coalesce nurture and advance its cadre a task of which all too many libertarians remain Completely ignorant and unfortunately, I think as true today as when Rothbard penned those words many decades ago And finally while we're talking about the solution aspect of this we have to get to another important point of the problem As articulated as I as I alluded to in part three of This treatise where he talks about another Exceptionally important aspect of this yes in order to defeat the tyrant we have to make people stop Desiring the tyranny, but why do they desire to live under tyranny and he lays it out again in a very insightful passage where he says that It isn't just the the tyrant himself He says five or six have always had access to the tyrant's ear and have either gone to him of their own accord Or also been summoned by him to his to be accomplices in his curolties companions and his pleasures Pandered to his lusts and sharers and his plunders These six manage their chief so successfully that he comes to be held accountable not only for his own misdeeds But even for theirs the six have six hundred who profit under them and with the six hundred They do what they have accomplished with their tyrant the six hundred maintain under them six thousand whom they promote in rank upon whom they confer the government of provinces or the direction of finances in order that they may serve as instruments of Averis and cruelty executing orders at the proper time and working such havoc all around that they could not last except under the shadow of the six hundred Nor be exempt from law and punishment except through their influence And then he eventually talks about when this point is reached through big favors or little ones that large profits or small are Obtained under a tyrant there are found almost as many people to whom tyranny seems advantageous as As those to whom liberty would seem desirable and that is an exceptionally important point of this I think this speaks to what jadr Griffin has articulated as the rings within rings Way that secret societies function. No, not everyone involved in an organization like the CFR is all working towards some master plan for global government No, but there are there is that central crew of people who have the ear of the the king the tyrant whatever in this case Then maybe it's the US Congress generally, but anyway, they have the ear and they are whispering in that ear And around them they have a larger group who directly depends on them for their sustenance and around them There's an even larger group and the rings expand and a little bit less obviously falls from the table at each level But somebody is getting something from each level of this system and it expands and expands until it encompasses most of the society And although you and I and I I'm sure many of the people listening to this audience don't directly know a president prime minister Whatever emperor, but we we probably do know people who are employed in state government or in provincial government or in some some level of Some part of the structure that that benefits directly from the things that a crew from that that that's trough of power One way or another or we know someone who works in the defense industry or whatever it is So there's a lot of people who get caught up in the system to the point where as the old saying goes you can't Make someone believe something that it their Salary depends on them believing it you know whatever you know, you know, that's the quote that I'm butchering here But that's the point. Yeah, there's a lot of people whose livelihoods are at least the way they have structured their lives depends on this tyrannical structure and thus they are actually incentivized to keep it in place So the real solution then is to incentivize the other side no no no the real incentive is Liberty is the destruction of that system and how do we incentivize it? We don't do it simply by writing screeds Against the government we don't do it just by mocking or satirizing the government those are all tools We should keep them in our tool belt and you and use them judiciously But the real point is to create a system outside of that system of tyranny Outside that people can directly experience the benefits from i.e Agerism the gray in the black markets the things you are not supposed to be involved in but look people over there are thriving While when there's a cataclysm that serves the benefits of the people in power who want a great reset for example and They declare a pandemic and say you're not an essential worker you have to stay home and you're unemployed now Ha ha ha you know your business is gone everything you've worked for your whole life Oh, by the way, we're gonna degrade the currency and you're gonna have absolutely nothing to show for a lifetime of labor Maybe then people will realize oh Maybe I should be over in these gray and black markets working on these decentralized Things that they don't have any control over and I can work under the table directly for other people and Directly experience the benefits of it so an important point of the solution is not just Ridicule is not just anti-state. It's actually the building up of a different A different system entirely that people can experience those benefits from because until that exists No one's gonna step out outside of the system that's keeping them alive That's an excellent point that Vladimir Putin made when he was being interviewed by rock by Oliver Stone He said this is you know some amazing Christian architecture you have here You know mr. Putin and he goes and he goes yeah Well after the fall of communism people needed something to believe in and then they just keep going and I go That is so profound and Putin is so in the know so former KGB officer He just has a general understanding its second nature. This is how I operate this This thing That allowing people to sort of fill the hole that the state currently does you know looking to someone to admire How do I know it's right or wrong? There's the law. Well if you take that away that you really are I mean what when you say What when people kneel during the national anthem in America? There are some people that lose it to the nth degree people that don't respect you know Barack Obama during his reign people on the on the left lost it then so that is Something that I think is really important to recognize The opening quote at the beginning was me quoting myself from a speech I gave Called case for anarchism you could find that on my channel That is where I actually met our friend Ernie Hancock when I gave that speech in Phoenix, Arizona So final thoughts on the book in closing Let me just stress once again. This is 500 year old wisdom, but it really is timeless It could have been written 1500 years ago or 3000 years ago or it could be written a thousand years hence and it would still be Absolutely as relevant Rothbard really points that out in his introductory essay which he goes into some depth about the context of this and why this is an important Treat us because it is timeless in that sense a lot of the Political philosophy and things coming out of that era was very much in the the context of that moment and with regards to this or that particular King but no this is this is much more timeless than that and that's why it's important On another note I would say that the rereading the Rothbard introduction to this once again gives me sort of pining for a time that I never even really lived through but a time when It was a more literally a more literate society just a few decades ago where people would not only be expected To read books like this but to have sort of the the background knowledge and be able to pull out references from 100 year old books that make this point and 58 year old books that make that point and point to page numbers I mean there's real scholarship that goes into this and the the most disappointing part of that is realizing That wasn't so exceptional at the time an academic would have been expected to write an introduction like this at this time reading it in today's context It's actually exceptional. Wow. This guy has so many references for everything that he talks about how the hell did he keep that all in his head Well, there you go. That's that that that was that was the norm at one point So we are increasingly and I won't say illiterate a post-literate society Where people will watch videos like this one a thousand times more likely than they will ever read a book a crack open a book like this one And that is to the detriment of human society generally because there is some valuable wisdom in works like this So I know that there are going to be people who are going to feel the urge to comment on our conversation without having read the book I would implore you Please if you find anything that we have talked about today interesting whether you agree or disagree Please read the book go back to the actual source material I'm telling you this is not a big book It will not take you long to get through it and you will be a richer and better person for having gone through it Even if you do disagree with it You will have a better understanding of what the argument is and what it rests on Excellent. So again the two must-see videos of James Corbett who is Bill Gates and the secret life of Timothy McVeigh My Corbett got you question at the end of all of our discussions here it is All right James I have a magical wand and I can make it so you can interview any living person alive today Who is it and what would you ask them? I'll take an easy out I'll say Jeff Reppstein I don't even think he's still alive but hey if he was I wouldn't make one hell of an interview wouldn't Yeah, absolutely hey, thank you so much for watching Keith Knight don't tread on anyone James Corbett. Thank you for your time. Thank you