The Truly Free Market

I've been reading a few books lately that interest me, and it seems everyone is upset that the free market isn't really free. That there is no real free market. That government must be in the picture to keep awful people from being awful so -- really, no free market, huh.

The truth is that it is completely wholly fully totally free -- that is, in the sense that people pay freely for a good or service and get that good or service. Government is really just one of those services people choose to buy. Government is really just part of the free market.

Don't want its services? Don't buy its product. Don't want to enter a contract that enslaves you to someone you've assigned to govern your affairs, don't sign on the dotted line.

Virtually every single person would then ask, "Don't you have to pay taxes?"

Do you?

Have you ever examined all the assumptions about taxes, and what the law is really about? If you live thoroughly by the World, you will only know of the World's perspective.

There is also the Kingdom's.

Except that, if you're going to remain awful, then the World may be just the right fit.

Who Are the Liars, Really?

Sometimes I just look with amazement at people spending so much time and energy trying to figure out who the liars are. So many of them give up and just resign themselves to working real hard at being the best liars they can be. Many work at lying only because they are so afraid of how much they'll be exploited by the best liars--it's like a game. A most lethal one at that.

One of the things that gets me about this is that in order to identify the liars you've got to know the truth. So here are all these people, like bugs on meat, scrambling around out there trying to know the truth so they can be liars. Comical! And yes, quite tragic at the same time.

One reason they are just spinning their wheels is they'll be dust in the end anyway, unless they come to The One Who Is Truth, who would free them from the deceit rathole, but He's nowhere in their purview. So they'll keep scurrying about looking for truth to be a good liar even though the better liars will always get the better of them.