Auschwitz: Dictators love fences and walls, ways of separating people.
An interesting study of 190 nations will be linked below. It finds that " the freedom of people to pursue their own desires and hold the government responsible for its actions creates a spontaneous social field within which humans are most secure--violence is minimal, and human and economic development are best achieved. That is, freedom predicts human security."
This study avoids the human nature is evil dogma and examines the degree to which freedom and human development predict human security, ie the absence of threats. It finds that the more freedom, the less violence, the more security. The less freedom, the more insecurity and threats to well-being.
This study debunks the ancient antagonism between liberty and security and the endless arguments about how to balance the two contrasting values. Where freedom thrives, violence diminishes and thus security increases.
Is military might a protector of freedom or the enemy?
" In all, these analyses of freedom's relationship to violence well prove that the amount of war, revolution, turmoil, and domestic unrest and instability experienced by a people depend fundamentally on the degree to which they are free. Free people have the least violence; the least free the most."
This leads to the conclusion that those offering to reduce our freedom to make us safer are offering a false sense of security in exchange for the very freedom which creates real security. Another way to say this is to quote General Smedly Butler when he wrote: War is a Racket. It is part of the fraudulent state which operates as a protection racket. And this suggests an alternative based on the agreement of both anthropological studies of our long human pre-history, free of violence and slavery, and modern statistical studies of modern nations correlating freedom with security, lack of freedom with a field of danger and threats that then we are told can be cured by police and military violence.
See:
www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/WF.APPENDIX.HTM
The finding of a massacre about 10,000 years ago has been described as the only case of warfare between groups of hunter/gatherer societies, but since this was after the warlike agricultural settled communities had begun, it is very possible that it was a hungry agricultural group that massacred a hunter/gatherer group. The only other evidence of violence found to suggest a raid or war is undated. This is truly the exception that proves the rule.
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