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Tip A Bureaucrat For Freedom
Bureaucrat tipping is a creative and natural enterprise involving the joy of doing it better yourself.
Power corrupts, but bureaucrats are proof that even a little power corrupts absolutely - few of them can tell differences in degrees of power. Bureaucrats keep us waiting, they overcharge us while providing shoddy service, they cater to favorites, and for now they retire comfortably.
Don't be more dedicated to any institution than it is dedicated to you.
Bureaucrats think they control us -- we know different. We are the best judge of what is best for ourselves - not them. We can replace their power tripping with our own bureaucrat tipping.
"Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?" - Thomas Jefferson
Here are five bureaucrat tipping ideas to return a proper balance to the scales.
The Fifth Best Bureaucrat Tipping Idea
Move to a new location where bureaucracy has not grown to a monstrous size.
It is your life, live your life in a manner that is most pleasing to you.Bureaucrats are like cow dogs for opportunistic rustlers. Leave those bureaucrats to their handlers and their cowered cattle.
Too long have you been a target of theft from those that use political means to pick your pockets and limit your actions. If it is not right for someone to steal your property or restrict your life, how does it become right when they get government bureaucrats to do it for them?
Of all 36 ways to get out of trouble, the best way is -- leave. - Chinese Proverb
Leave moochers, thieves, and busybodies behind with their pet bureaucrats and let them feed on each other.
Lyrics from Paul Simon's song, "50 ways to leave your lover:"
just slip out the back, Jack
make a new plan, Stan
don't need to be coy, Roy
just listen to me
hop on the bus, Gus
don't need to discuss much
just drop off the key, Lee
and get yourself free.
travel and see how others live
Find a country or a city where what you value is honored.
It's a big world - you may fit in better some place other than where you were born. What will get you arrested in one country might make you a hero elsewhere - consider your options.
Do some traveling and consider how you would fit into one of the many other cultures.
If you drive fast, try Germany; if you want a 60's lifestyle, try Amsterdam. If you desire greater freedoms consider living as a Permanent Tourist within the three flags concept.
The Fourth Best Bureaucrat Tipping Idea
don't ask permission
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.Wherever you live, your rights as a human are violated daily. You are restricted, restrained, and stolen from to meet other's desires. You are repeatedly told your basic human rights are privileges you must seek permission to enjoy. To permit is to control.
"Isn't it about time we found Congress in contempt of The People?" - unknown
You don't need anyone's permission to read different books, learn new skills, rediscover childish laughter, or start a new hobby.
"If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so." - Thomas Jefferson
Whenever possible just do the right thing, causing no harm to others. Quietly exercise your individual right to determine how to spend your own life. Don't do it loudly in protest unless you feel that is important.
The Bureaucratic age is over. Just as leather bound encyclopedias and mega book stores have been supplanted by Wikipedia and Amazon; so will all too large bureaucracies decline. The trick is to stay out of their path while they are falling.
"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant." - John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859)
To explore the road less traveled you must leave the herd. Just step to the side and let the cattle stampede past.
"There's always someone telling you not to do something. The main thing is just to ignore them." - Tim Robbins
buy and contemplate the book before you accept an idea
"Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies." - Balzac
What is it worth to increase your personal liberty?
Any of the following will be a wise start to challenging your perceptions -- and also a good read. I also highly recommend downloading a collection of e-books centered on the classic Perpetual Tourist book by Dr. W. G. Hill.
Guerrilla Learning: How to Give Your Kids a Real Education With or Without School
Amazon Price: $10.85 (as of 05/12/2008)
List Price: $15.95
The Other Path: The Economic Answer to Terrorism
Amazon Price: $10.88 (as of 05/12/2008)
List Price: $16.00
How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World: A Handbook for Personal Liberty
Amazon Price: (as of 05/12/2008)
List Price: $24.95
The Freedom Outlaw's Handbook: 179 Things to Do 'Til the Revolution
Amazon Price: (as of 05/12/2008)
List Price: $20.00
How to Be Invisible: The Essential Guide to Protecting Your Personal Privacy, Your Assets, and Your Life (Revised Edition)
Amazon Price: $16.47 (as of 05/12/2008)
List Price: $24.95
The Third Best Bureaucrat Tipping Idea
Start Your Own Internet Business
It Won't Last.With your own internet based business you can be much more efficient. Instant global access allows you to focus on your skills and knowledge while easily and inexpensively outsourcing other tasks to specialists.
As the first halting step enabling the information age, the Internet befuddles bureaucrats that remain a fixture of the fading industrial age.
For now it is easy and inexpensive to start an internet based business, and there are a minimum of regulatory hoops through which you will have to jump.
But the industrial age bureaucracies will not die quietly - they will attempt to entangle the individually empowering liberty of the web with every Luddite inspired chain and rope they can manufacture.
Start your own internet business today. This is the sort of business you will be able to take with you if you have to leave your comfortable current location. Get in while the getting is good. All we know for sure is that those who wait will spend more money and have to fight more senseless rules.
Add external pressure to the implosion of archaic one size fits most organizations. Create your own internet based business right now by displacing high cost and poor service bureaucracies. Develop your own business and help create the self tailored society.
Start your new life as a visionary and entrepreneur.
Lets hear it for bureaucrat tipping
A "top 10" of angst and some relief - just for you
50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
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The Paul Simon Collection - I'm on My Way, Don't Know Where I'm Goin'
The Coalition to Ban Coalitions
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America (The Way I See It) - Original Classic Hits, Vol.18
A Bureaucrat Tipping College
Can you disappoint others to be true to yourself?
Bastiat Free University - student directed learning for visionaries and entrepreneurs (and more than a few eccentrics).
"I know very well that because I am unlettered some presumptuous people will think they have the right to criticize me, saying that I am an uncultured man. What stupid fools! Do they not know that I could reply to them as Marius did to the Roman patricians: 'Do those who pride themselves on the works of other men claim to challenge mine?'" - Leonardo da Vinci
Monitor the Bastiat Free University college classes online and do it at no charge - learn for the cost of materials. BFU does not offer college degrees at this time, enjoy all of our resources at no charge..
"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things." - Leonardo da Vinci
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work the system just as it has worked you
"Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs." - P.J. O'RourkeThe nanny state and its enforcers will go broke. To buy votes politicians keep redefining the rich they are stealing from down toward the poverty level.
"When a self-governing people confer upon their government the power to take from some and give to others, the process will not stop until the last bone of the last taxpayer is picked bare." - Howard Kershner
Using envy as a pry bar they have taken away the American Dream of growing affluence and replaced it with a promise to pull down those above you to your level. Just remember those below you are being promised that soon you will be pulled down also. Those reading this are probably wealthier than 90% of the world - think how far you can be cut down.
The American dream of self improvement is being replaced by a bureaucrat's dream of a dependent populace. Once there was hope to excel and create a better life for those you love. Now the dream is to become a victim or bureaucrat feeding at the public trough.
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill
Louis Blanc's "From each according to his ability - to each according to his need" has created a vicious victim competition. Today a person needs to be emotionally declared the greatest victim to have priority access to other's earnings.
"When under the pretext of fraternity, the legal code imposes mutual sacrifices on the citizens, human nature is not thereby abrogated. Everyone will then direct his efforts toward contributing little to, and taking much from, the common fund of sacrifices. Now, is it the most unfortunate who gains from this struggle? Certainly not, but rather the most influential and calculating." - C. F. Bastiat
If something evil is going to fall - it should be pushed. Consider the benefits of making the greatest bureaucratic thieves go broke.
"The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly." - Thomas Sowell
New York City's, San Francisco's, and the entire state of Massachusetts' leadership are dedicated to providing for non-producers by stealing from workers. Send those that want to sponge off the system to these locations with your blessing - the extra burden will help finish bureaucratic Ponzi schemes that much sooner.
an anti-bureaucratic manifesto
bureaucrat tipping realities
Starting here in early 2008 we will make a list of bureaucratic tipping ideas. We will occasionally add a few until we have better defined an emerging alternative to impersonal economies of scale. By the end of 2008 we should have a well edited collection.
- Humanity is composed of individuals.
- Every functioning individual is better equipped to determine what is best for themselves than any other person.
- The "one size fits many" industrial age is over - it ain't coming back.
- the world is still full of bureaucratic age misfits believing it is their calling to run the lives of others. Their world is shrinking, and in some cases imploding.
- The technologically empowering age of the individual has begun; individuals are starting to self-tailor their own lives.
- The social axiom with the greatest potential -- Do as you wish; without harming others and their rights to do as they wish.
- If you so tailor your life so as to optimize opportunities for yourself and those you love, everyone benefits.
- A life well lived is a disruptive technology.
- Any exchange of loyalties is an ongoing negotiation. Individuals can choose where and why to direct their loyalty, and when to remove it.
- Loyalty is now born of respect, not of position. If you are posturing for position, any loyalty perceived as gained is ephemeral.
- Respect, or lack thereof, is reciprocal. Now is the time to change the equilibrium point with those important to you.
- Institutions that seek quality relationships with their constituents are destined to find like measure to what they uniquely offer.
- Too big -- a balloon waiting for a pin.
- Too small -- the first step to success. Creative "too small" organizations and individuals are a pin box.
It's too early for blanket agreements.
In fact this is just the start of building an anti-bureucratic manifesto.
What you can do is add a theses or two, agree or disagree with some particular theses, or rewrite one of the above to improve clarity.
Do you want to help improve this manifesto?
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The Very Best Bureaucrat Tipping Idea
Live your own life - do it your way
Do what makes you happy, provide for those that are important to you. Your cooperative self interest will make life better for all - improving your own life is also a worthy social goal."The risks and rewards of creative and natural entrepreneurship are greater, and of far more value to society, than any illusions of security that enslave human cogs in a social machine." - Allan Wallace
Every small thing you do, every idea you ponder, should be made free of concern about petty rules that limit without protection. How much more should major goals be developed with an early eye to understanding. Give minimal and late consideration to packages of limitations pushed at you by bureaucrats.
It does not matter what others might say or think about you. Some will complain no matter what you do or don't do. Risk failure, embrace and manage risk, and then recover from its inevitable presence. Each effort draws you closer to understanding what is required for your personal success.
"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform." - Mark Twain
I am developing an unbound college of learning, Bastiat Free University, for visionaries, entrepreneurs, and independent eccentrics. I'm sure you can also do something liberating that focuses your passions and offers meaning to your life.
Don't let social pressures steal your dreams. Don't let moralizing busy bodies and intolerant educators limit your ambitions. Join in the adventure - bring your most outrageous dreams.
Your life is not about supporting a bloated village of 300 million people. Pursue your career as a unique and valuable individual; for yourself and for those you cherish. Seek your own destiny, meaning, or life purpose and make it happen.
As Herbert Hoover said: "Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt." When over fifty percent of what you earn is taken in taxes, when one spouse is in effect working for big government for free, when children are bondslaves to paying off government debts, it is worth considering alternatives.
After you succeed you will be told to relinquish your earned gains. They think you should give up your dreams for needs they define. Of course they feel obligated to manage and distribute your coerced "gifts," and skim themselves an easy living off the top.
"Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone." - Bastiat
Enough about "them." What really matters is you. Dwell on your passions, dive into learning about ideas that excite you. Think, don't just follow.
"The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." - Tacitus
"No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session." - Mark Twain
"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators." - P.J. O'RourkeDon't break laws. Don't join protest movements. Don't write your leaders, just remove your support from their dangerous actions. Legally structure your life in such a way as to minimize your support of growing inequities and international entanglements.
You can tell the quality of an idea by the enemies it makes.
You can become an activist, but a bureaucratic nation is inherently unjust. The public humiliation, incarceration, or elimination of scapegoats keeps sheep obedient. "Law cannot organize labor and industry without organizing injustice." - Bastiat
Martha Stewart, Ruby Ridge, and Waco were well thought out lessons used to showcase intimidating government power. Less visible or more politically connected figures have been ignored for far greater crimes. "Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." - George Washington
As an example, at the start of every year the IRS will arrest or convict a high profile celebrity for tax evasion or tax fraud. This is not justice working; it is a planned news event for tax season demonstrating the power of government tax enforcement.
America was founded on the idea that citizens could control government so that it could be forced to control itself. Instead, the constitutional safeguards have fallen one by one or been ignored. The government servant is now the master.
"The hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. As long as that niche is occupied, evidence and proof and logical demonstration get nowhere. But once the niche is emptied of the wrong idea that has been filling it - once you can say 'I don't know,' then it becomes possible to get at the truth." - Robert A. Heinlein
Often we barely know enough to know we don't know.
The good news is that if we wish to learn, we can.
None of us are now as free as we could be, most of us are slaves bred of indoctrination and social pressure. Most countries have wandered far from good government; to the extent you support them you also support their unjust acts.
"A bureaucrat is the most despicable of men, though he is needed as vultures are needed, but one hardly admires vultures whom bureaucrats so strangely resemble. I have yet to meet a bureaucrat who was not petty, dull, almost witless, crafty or stupid, an oppressor or a thief, a holder of little authority in which he delights, as a boy delights in possessing a vicious dog. Who can trust such creatures?" - Cicero
Bureaucrats frequently have enough unchecked authority to arbitrarily ruin lives. Keep yourself out of their sights, doing the least you can to support them; do what you can to ensure your own liberty. "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." - Voltaire
"A wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government." - Thomas Jefferson
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. - Ambrose Redmoon
You still have options. At the very least you should establish escape routes should increasingly totalitarian trends continue.
"Liberty consists in doing what one desires." - John Stuart Mill
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