Peter B. Bos - The Road to Freedom and the Demise of Nation States

THE ROAD TO FREEDOM

And The Demise Of Nation States

PETER B. BOS

The Road to Freedom and the Demise of Nation States

Copyright 2015 Peter B. Bos.

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ISBN: 978-1-4834-3144-4 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4834-3146-8 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-4834-3145-1 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2015907765

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Lulu Publishing Services rev. date: 09/01/2015

Contents

LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES

This book is dedicated to my dear departed foster parents,

Helen Treyz-Smith and Harold Smith,

whose memory I carry with me every day of my life.

Their compassion and love represent the true spirit of America.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long Train of Abuses and Usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their Security.

United States Declaration of Independence , July 4, 1776

T his book represents a paradigm shift in thinking about the social organization of men, one which will serve all the traditional purposes of the state while bringing individual sovereignty and freedom to people worldwide. This book describes why the state is a mythical and illegitimate concept that does not and cannot work and why, without the corrective feedback of profits and losses under free-market competition, this unstable, unmanageable, and highly inefficient bureaucratic organization will produce its own demise.

For thousands of years coercive organizations, including city states, theocracies, empires, monarchies, dictatorships, and nation states, have subjugated human beings. Currently, the alleged protection of individual life and property is usurped by monopolistic nation states whose social organization ranges from dictatorships to elected parliamentary or political democracies . In the latter case, individuals are provided limited choices regarding their social organization and the political representatives to whom fiduciary power is entrusted through elections every number of years. Once elected, these representatives are given the authority to enact laws, rules and regulations prescribing constituents how to behave and to which obedience is coercively enforced. In the former case, even the elective choices are usurped by the state. Regardless of the states specific form, an ever-encroaching bureaucracy with highly centralized management not subject to competitive market feedback increasingly usurps individual freedom of action and property rights.

In contrast with the state, imagine a social organization based on the economic democracy of the free market where individuals vote with their money ballots on every issue of interest to them each time they make a purchase or enter into a contract with whom and whenever they choose. Imagine a world where the protection of life and property is competitively provided through voluntary subscription to insurance and to private security organizations. These organizations actually have a proprietary interest in your life and property, because if you suffered damage to either, they would lose money. Imagine a world without coercive laws, rules, regulations, taxes and authoritative political bureaucracies, a world without national debts, a world in which individuals can contract for their own personal protection against major and minor catastrophes and can obtain restitution for transgressions committed against them. Imagine a world with a system of jurisprudence based upon customary law, with focus on the prevention of injustice and upon contractual exchange of property with voluntary compliance arbitration for restitution of transgressions, a system self-enforced by reciprocity and by social or economic sanctions, without the need for jails.

Imagine a world with noncompulsory lifelong education offered by the best educators, as determined by the marketplace, using the latest communication technologies at competitively low cost. Imagine a world where you can enjoy the benefits of your labor and investments without seeing their value diminished through inflation resulting from the printing of fiat money and from confiscation by taxes. Imagine a world with inherent and continuous built-in checks and balances provided by the competitive market. Imagine a world with a social organization based upon contract rather than privilege for the few. Imagine a world without arbitrary national borders, tariffs, or other trade restrictions that inhibit the free exchange of goods and services between people worldwide, thereby eliminating frictions and wars. Imagine a world with unlimited opportunity, individual sovereignty, and total freedom. Imagine a world without the violence of the state and between nation states.

This is not a utopian dream. Such a world is not only possible, but its basic structure and institutions already exist . The services for protection of life and property against catastrophic risks are currently already provided by proprietary organizations through voluntary subscription to internationally well-developed insurance and private security organizations. For almost everyone desiring the protection of their life or property, when presented the choice between indifferent state monopolies and a natural government with a proprietary interest in individual life and property, the choice should be obvious. The proprietary organizations and technologies for establishing and extending credit already exist that will facilitate the issuing of private cyberspace virtual money worldwide, backed by producers of goods and services and not by central bank fiat.