Now look about you, professor-raise your nose from your great books and survey the actual world as it is-and you will not observe such unpredictable functions. A phenomenon of unpredictable periodicity, mathematically speaking. But in total freedom-in anarchy-such unequal exchanges will be sporadic and irregular. Now, such mathematically unequal exchanges will always occur because some traders will be shrewder than others. But if we exchange unequal goods, one of us profits and the other loses. If you and I exchange equal goods, that is trade: neither of us profits and neither of us loses. “In the same mathematically reciprocal way, profit implies loss. The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid/The Golden Apple/Leviathan
“What would you think of a man who not only kept an arsenal in his home, but was collecting at enormous financial sacrifice a second arsenal to protect the first one? What would you say if this man so frightened his neighbors that they in turn were collecting weapons to protect themselves from him? What if this man spent ten times as much money on his expensive weapons as he did on the education of his children? What if one of his children criticized his hobby and he called that child a traitor and a bum and disowned it? And he took another child who had obeyed him faithfully and armed that child and sent it out into the world to attack neighbors? What would you say about a man who introduces poisons into the water he drinks and the air he breathes? What if this man not only is feuding with the people on his block but involves himself in the quarrels of others in distant parts of the city and even in the suburbs? Such a man would clearly be a paranoid schizophrenic, Mr. Liberty, by placing men to equal footing, creates association, amalgamation, union, security.” To say that the liberty exists is to say that classlessness exists, to say that brotherhood and equality exist.Īuthority, by dividing men into classes, creates dichotomy, disruption, hostility, fear, disunion. Thus, to say that authority exists is to say that class and cast exist, that submission and inequality exist. Authority exists when one man obeys another, and liberty exists when one man do not obey other men. If authority implies submission, liberation implies equality.
The obedient always think about themselves as virtuous, rather than cowardly. Spartacus was not a hero, and obedient slaves were virtuous. To the Roman slave owners, Spartacus was not the hero and obedient slaves were not cowards. “Submission is identified not with cowardliness, but with virtue, rebellion not with heroism, but with evil.
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