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Have you entered a store without the mandated mask affixed to your face?
Visited a friend in violation of a lockdown order?
Frequented a New York bar that didn't offer "
substantive" food to go with your beer?
Congratulations! You're a thought criminal!
And here's the best part: There are more thought criminals being born every day!
What am I talking about?
The counter-economy, that's what!As you'll no doubt remember from
my previous writing on the subject, counter-economics is not what the Pentagon does to
cook its books each year. No, it's both an idea and a practice that was pioneered by Samuel Edward Konkin III, everyone's second favourite Canadian emigre anarchist.
In
An Agorist Primer, Konkin explains that "All (non-coercive) human action committed in defiance of the State constitutes the Counter-Economy." That's a deceptively simple definition, so let's tease out some of the nuance here:
- "Non-coercive" is important because murder, theft, assault, fraud, extortion and other forms of coercion are not part of the counter-economy, but, as Konkin notes, are simply "other forms of statism."
- "Human action" is important because, as Konkin was at pains to stress, counter-economics is not a dry, dusty theory to be discussed in a philosophy classroom, but an idea that can only be realized in practice.
- And "in defiance of the State" is important because the purpose of counter-economics is to undermine, and, eventually, shrink the state out of existence.
So, you walk into a store without a mask in defiance of your city's ordinances? Congratulations! You're a practicing counter-economist.
Comment: Deliberate dumbing-down of the public and sporadic citizen meltdown over trivial issues was on the rise for a few decades. It went to new heights with the liberal meltdown over Trump's election in 2016. But, 2020 proved to be 'year of the meltdown' with Covid hysteria, mask madness and BLM hooliganism in the name of justice and systemic racism.
In another incident, one Toronto man wearing a mask below his chin became hysterical over another mask-less customer getting his pizza in a 'Pizza Pizza' chain restaurant and destroyed their display unit.
Many comments speculated that the violent outburst could be the result of mental health issues.
Toronto requires masks to be worn in all indoor public spaces. Similar policies adopted by the British and German authorities have sparked protests in those countries. In the Netherlands, the government has said it will not advise the public to wear face masks, arguing that there is not enough proof that they are effective at stopping the spread of Covid-19.