For our entire lives we’ve heard schoolmarms, the media, liberal Christians and other subversives lecturing young men that “violence doesn’t solve problems.” Every time we have a public killing, we are told “political violence isn’t the answer.”
Now, anyone who has lived even a few years past the age of reason is aware that violence does, in fact, solve many problems. We publicly acknowledge this in that we have police, courts, penal institutions and the like. And we acknowledge this privately: when someone is attacked, they generally either try to defend themselves with violence, or they ask someone else to, whether a private citizen or the police.
The history of human civilization is the history of violence solving problems. A large portion of the population of the United States still believes, at least in theory, in self-defense and the corollary right to bear arms. The government bombs or invades other countries on a regular basis, which everyone treats as normal. So, we obviously do believe that violence solves problems.
At the same time, anyone who has thought about political theory for any amount of time understands that politics is violence. Stupid or dishonest people will sometimes do mental gymnastics to get around this reality, but mostly people who think about it for a couple of minutes acknowledge that political power is the active violent assertion of sovereignty, i.e., the right to initiate force in a given territory. This is the conventional definition of the state since Max Weber. It is not controversial.
And yet, the liberal Christian churches, the schoolmarms, the media and the influencer class continue to berate us with these nonsense slogans. And the indoctrination works, because people mindlessly repeat these mantras all the time without pausing to think about their implications.
The debunking, rejection and destruction of this propaganda is long overdue.
