Government Explained 

I really like how this video breaks down what a strange concept government is.

"we're allowed to ask them to tell us to do what we want them to tell us to do" im dying

I play your Government-Explained in my Radio show every Friday in Berlin, and it is working well. a lot of people love your stuff.

How do I like a video more than once? Because this is honestly one of my most favourite videos on RU-vid.

Government is, in essence, a protection racket.

The crux of the argument is this... An anarchist is perfectly happy to allow a statist to sign a contract with a group of individuals he calls "government", who steals 50% of his income, makes arbitrary rules he must follow, forces him to buy things he may not need/want, sends him to fight and die in wars that make no difference to him AND force him to pay for these wars and put him in a cage if he's caught with a certain plant in his pocket (among other things). All the anarchist asks is for the same respect, to NOT be forced into that same contract with those people who call themselves "government". The anarchist is more than willing to let the statist do with his life as he wishes, but the statist will not afford the anarchist that same courtesy. It's just that simple.

If i were a professor teaching a class called "anarchy 101 , it aint chaos, its common sense." This would be an introductory video to that class.

THIS NEEDS A OSCAR

this guy is just talking to an alien like nothings happening

'Yeahhh, but I didn't vote for this guy. My guy would have been better. And if you don't vote, you have no right to complain.'

we need government like a fish need bicycle

I genuinely can not believe this hasn’t gotten more views

everyone needs to see this video

Have watched this video several times, and I never get tired of it. haha

One of the best I've ever seen. A friend's 5 yr. old son once asked his dad what the government was. His dad asked "What do you think it is?" Answer: " Sounds like a fat man on the corner asking for money." Out of the mouths of babes ... !

Brilliant video. A thorough representation of anarcho-capitalist arguments.

This video is brilliant!

Interesting , thought provoking, and funny in a nightmarish sort of way

Excellent work! Subbed and liked. Just outstanding!

I watched this yesterday and shared it on twitter and facebook. Loved it! Gold.

It has already been done! I just added a link in the video description box to all the translated versions that I know of: French, Spanish, German, Czech... and Greek! If anyone wants to translate to any other languages, please feel free! Send me a caption file, or just upload a new version of the video and let me know so I can add it to my list. The video transcript is linked in the description. And thank you!

Just remembered this video after watching it ages ago... since then ive become much more of an anarchist and im so glad i can appreciate this video more now lol😍

"We're allowed to ask them, to tell us to do, what we want them to tell us to do"

Probably the most important vid on the net right now

Soon the man will get to tell the alien about humanity's recent invention of nuclear weapons, how governments stockpile such weapons, and how the history of humans with their governments is the story of one war after another. It's at that point that the alien will inform the man that humanity is almost certainly doomed.

and I thought Monte Python had it right. lol. Great analogy. MUDDy

Very good work my friend. Such an incredibly simple concept.

Great Video, I hope this wakes up the masses. Will share far and wide.

Great, well done! This explains "sort of" why I never vote (except once for the small village where I live)

I love this video sums up my thoughts on government exactly.

Awesome video. Thank you for sharing.

I love this! Great job Graham Wright and Larken Rose!!! 👏👏👏

Best youtube video ever!!!!!

What an amazing script.

Wow ! What a perfect explanation. Please complete this complete. Thanks

Brilliant video, really well done and explained, and couldn't agree more.

What species are these politicians lol

This video is absolutely amazing. It would take a true idiot to still like government after hearing it the way you explained it.

This was great! Thank you!

Good time to share this again! It's one of the best videos created imho!

what program did you use to create this, if you don't mind?

Very well done! :-)

We don't give them money- they take it by force.

instant classic. very nicely done.

you've got a great channel, continue to spread the liberty message!

I watched this video at my school and I almost died LMAOOOO this is the best video I’ve ever seen in my life

This is bloody amazing, many thanks :)

Thank you my friend.

Yup, that's about the size of it.

I love this conversation. Makes ya think, or at least it should.

Sharing the crap out of this. New sub

Great work !!!

"Government" IS a monster...

So Well explained. When You watch this and listen to whats being said it sounds SO Stupid and Ridiculous. I wish Everyone Would Watch This.

Absolutely brilliant !!!

one of the best things on this internet thing....us help us all

This excellent breakdown proves how important it is to keep teaching our peer human beings true logic; if successful, it will make them come to the same baffling conclusion as this video shows.

This is brilliant!

This says it all. Well worth the 10min listening time.

How stupid are we???

Its a red pill for sure.

How could you dislike this video?

Nailed it. And so few see it.

I wish people wernt like sheep

WE ENSLAVED OURSELFS!!

This is beautiful TY.

The alien should ask "what is money?"

John Holt's _Freedom and Beyond_ similarly features a conversation with an alien, to explain school. School is a really weird thing to believe in.

Probably one of the best videos on youtube.

The he said "that's your system?" At the end had me rolling 😂

I'm sorry if you perceived my response as arrogant; that was not my intent. Yes, your question is relevant. This video merely highlights the absurdity of the thing called government - no alternative at all is proposed. I referred you to my other videos to see how I define government and what my alternative to government is. I'll do my best to answer any other questions you may have, but doing so in under 500 characters can be challanging.

ماذا نقول ونحن مستعبدين ولا يمكن لنا حتى ان نتكلم

Hello! Great video, it explains really simply something very complicated to explain, specialy because of everyones´ pre-conceived ideas about The System. I would love to subtitle it in Spanish, could this be done? and if yes, how do I do it? Thanks for sharing.

Oh, I wonder when that was made private. Anyway, I've now changed the link to a mirror version. Thanks for letting me know.

This is brilliant! I can't believe I've never come across this before. Wait, this is RU-vid... censortube... so actually, I can't believe I came across it right now.

Smart, caring, wise people who work "for the people" TRY to get elected, but don't get the backing of big corporations or lobbies and therefore will never win elections, as we discovered that to get to a certain level of electability, you must have insane amounts of money. Smart, caring, wise people feel bad about having hard working citizens waste their money on that kind of thing.

Government sucks

FYI - Great video - I shared pretty hard just a few minutes ago and have several positive reactions as well as reshares over at G+: Keep up the good work you do here! Ken

This is Brilliant!

I can feel my brain degenerating with every second watching this video.

I love it when the Alien says "What is government?" The human should have known that any advanced species capable of crossing interstellar space would know have a government.

Awesome video.

great job

This is so appropriate with all this covid crap going on! I gotta share the hell outta this!🇺🇸

To bad churches to preach this! They would loose exempt status. The all should drop the corp status because they never needed to ask permission to be tax free.(another fraud)

This is awesome, dude!

Interesting. It use to be the very first video in the results? I just looked and the sequel is on page 7 and the Spanish version is on page 18, but this one is nowhere to be found. Do you have a theory as to why this could be?

I have a solution to all of this. Let me just tell you about it and a little about myself. My childhood dream was to be an oceanographer. I love the water. Mother died when I was 10 and left me to an abusive father. I have had a lifetime of failure. I have had dozens of jobs and have lived in over a dozen different places. I created hell on earth for myself and anyone that cared about me. But just like the seed the knew that it must be hidden in darkness and then must struggle to see the light I found a way to stay alive. And through it all I have learned most lessons the hard way. Now I am 50. I have been through the fire. I now have this experience that tells me to keep moving forward, to never give up, to keep pursuing my dream. If you fall down 7 times, get up 8. My dream has changed greatly over time. My unique experience has allowed me to work through a struggle that mankind has been going through for millenia. My dream is to continue pursuing this evolving conversation that we have been having since the beginning of time. That conversation starts with this question. How do we get along? Answering this question has taken me further then I ever knew I could. Can we live in a system based in equality? We currently live in a system of hierarchy, just like our ancestors, and their ancestors, all the way back to the beginning of our recorded history with almost no exceptions. I believe we are currently creating the conditions that will clear the way for a new paradigm. The old and current paradigm is hierarchy. We have had differing forms of hierarchy for thousands of years now, with almost no exception. Hierarchies have always elevated some people at the expense of others. This is why we struggle so hard to be equal. It seems very unlikely that we will ever achieve equality under any system of hierarchy. In my mind hierarchy is obsolete. It only works for the people at the top while most of us have to pay or be found as a criminal. To make a system obsolete you do not fight to change the system, you create a system that makes the old system obsolete. We are currently involved in setting the stage, for not only a new awareness, but creating the circumstances in which a system of equality will arise that is beyond reproach. It has the potential to completely level the playing field, not just a little bit, it will be a full circle shift from hierarchy. Soon you will know how, with just a simple gesture, we can become truly equal. Equality is a subject I have been wrestling with since I was a child. My life has gone in so many crazy directions. And along the way I would sometimes ask people about equality. It seems that most people believe that we are somehow inherently equal but have a hard time explaining it. I also struggled with the subject for most of my life. It was not until I watched a show on Netflix called DMT the spirit molecule that things really changed for me. That show opened the door to the experience of ayahuasca. To those of you that may not know what ayahuasca is here is a definition from the urban dictionary. Ayahuasca: An extremely potent hallucinogenic substance - legal in Peru - that's derived from jungle vines by curanderos (shaman). It combines two pyschoactive substances (DMT and an MAO inhibitor), the latter compounding the effects of the former. Also known as "yage". The preparation and consumption of ayahuasca has been a tradition in South America for thousands of years. I saw ayahuasca as an opportunity to discover something more about myself. Find out why I struggled so much. I was always looking for answers. About 6 months before I had my first ayahuasca experience I began smoking pot again for the first time in 15 years. It had become legal in my state but I still resisted it until a friend gently reintroduced me to this special herb. It was like blowing back the veil. I was naturally compelled to find out more about who I was. This couldn't be done without finding out about who we ALL are. That was 2 and a half years ago. In my zeal to share and thus release humanity from its bonds I wrote a speech that I proclaimed to all in a large, downtown metropolitan area with little affect. I believe I overestimated the time people actually had set aside in their day to listen to wide eyed dreamers. I then began a series of failed efforts to get this message out. Eventually I learned, there is no such thing as failure, it is all part of the learning process. I've studied more in these last 2 and a half years then I have in my entire life. The message is still basically the same. It is really nothing new, I am just re-imagining a very old and successful idea. It turns out that equality is possibly one of the easiest things that we could imagine. It was something that Graham Hancock demonstrated in one of his video's that triggered a thought process. He said ancient Egyptians were always trying to replicate the heavens down on earth. I realized that was similar to what I was doing. I was trying to make the intangible, tangible. We can not be equal in the physical world. We are all physically unique. Our minds all work different. We all have different physical capabilities, from stamina to strength to speed. We all have different jobs, live in different places, we are simply all unique. Fortunately our unique individuality turns out to be our greatest strength. Which will later become apparent. We truly live in a special time in history. For we have already created a technological system that has the potential to give us unapologetic equality. The system I speak of is continuously opening the doors on our understanding and at the same time brings us closer together. This system has already been spread to about half the people on the world. The system is being spread to the rest of the world relatively cheaply with wireless technology. Of course, I speak of the internet. Since we cannot create equality in the physical world then perhaps we can do it in the virtual world. I believe that equality and freedom are two things that go hand in hand. I don't think you can truly have one without the other. We will never be handed our freedom. History has shown that we have always had to fight for it. Weather it has been violent resistance or non violent resistance through non compliance, we have always struggled for just a little more freedom. In fact freedom is so important to us people are willing to lay down their lives for just a little more freedom. Which is tragically ironic and deeply moving at the same time. This form of freedom is the rarest of them all. It comes with a price tag. If we really want total freedom each one of us is going have to assume total responsibility for our own actions. Have you ever heard the expression, with great freedom comes great responsibility? It certainly applies here. We will no longer have a small group of people making decisions for us. With the act of each individual accepting complete responsibility for their personal actions, we individually and collectively, become sovereign. So, instead of relying on a small group of, so called, "elites" to make decisions that affect our lives, we collectively make these decisions for ourselves. Now really think about this. Right now we consent to allow a handful of people the power to make decisions about war, economy, conservation, education, what rights we have, what taxes we pay, how much the taxes are, the list goes on and on and keeps growing by the day. Who is to say that these people can make better decisions for us than the pool of all existing people on the planet? Now stop and really think about that. No matter what problem we are facing, someone is probably working on it right now. If not, between all of us, we have a vast pool of knowledge and experience to draw from so that we can find solutions. One place where we can all go where we can talk about everything important to human civilization. This is where the internet steps back in. The internet will be our go to place to become educated on important issues. It will also be the place where anyone can go to be heard and to have the final, authoritative say in whatever it is they wish. Every user that logs in is recognized by the system, but appears anonymous to everyone else. This is vitally important if we are ever going to truly realize equality. Additionally anonymity will enhance the power of free speech, then to each person that is of the age of consent that wants it, we give ourselves the power of one vote as a common right. We talk, we argue, we share facts, ideas, we have smart software to help aggregate large information. When all is said and done we have a vote where anyone can have a final say. 2/3rds majority should be the standard. It is enough of us to give our consensus legitimacy. This is what true equality looks like and the internet is the only place where we can have a gathering of human beings without race or country, standing together, not always in agreement, but standing as one race that covers the spectrum of human experience. I believe our fierce individuality shines, in diversity, experience and our willingness to create a better life. I further believe that equality will bring an end to many of the troubles we face just by its virtue alone. We may be looking at a new golden age. With a click we can create a system based in equality where we can all have one voice and one vote, protected by anonymity. Here is the link to a video I made awhile back. vimeo.com/126000527 This is my first video. I believe it is not very good.

schools roads and defense could easily be handled by the free market much more efficiently...just as an example home school children consistently outperform public school children...roll roads are generally better maintained and more efficient to operate...and finally private security companies now patrol neighborhoods in lue of law enforcement agencies with lower crime rates safer neighborhoods and lower cost. So, any other dumb reasons we need government you want to throw out there.

This is great !!

Awesomeness

If the alien were truly intelligent, they would question the absurd notion of money. Please investigate a resource based economy.

Abdusselam be like:

MY FAVORITE VIDEO on youtube. by far.

Best video I have seen!

When you're done with this video, you will realize there is some truth to this but you'll grab your medical face covering before you leave your taxed, registered and insured house stepping outside under a sun-blocked sky filled with heavy-metals to get in your taxed, registered and insured truck fueled by taxed, regulated and processed fuel to drive under a coerced license derived from tax fees to go to your job that forced you to get an inoculation to stay to earn wages that are taxed over 30% with your consent to purchase health insurance that is taxed, registered and processed, to be able to buy that 4-wheeler, jet-ski or boat that is taxed, registered, and insured on a trailer that is taxed, registered and insured then camp overnight in a taxed campground in your taxed, registered and insured travel trailer while drinking grog that is taxed, processed and regulated for ingredients eating burgers and chips that is taxed, regulated, and processed for ingredients that is cooked on taxed and processed charcoal grill ignited with taxed, processed, and ingredient-regulated flammable fluid, or you choose to conserve your taxed wages and send your registered and insured off-spring to an educational institution that requires tax, registration, regulation, and insurance, so the off-spring can get a higher-waged, inoculated and taxed job and all is good and we are all free, free to do what ever we want, as long as we do what we're told, right?

Love this video but it's making me think I need different friends. Everyone I show this to doesn't seem to view this in the same light as I do. I'm so tired of people saying that they are free In America when in reality us normal poor American folk are just slaves. Had one friend say to me that I'm free because I can decide to not follow the governments rules or regulations. When I know I'm not that smart but I'm pretty sure anyone anywhere can not follow the rules of there leaders. So not a good comeback. Sorry had to rant a little bit. Tired of so many sheep's around me. Everyone says they are lions when reality shows that they are just sheep.

Excellent - thanks! Note: the timestamps should ideally be in the following format: H:MM:SS.thT, e.g. 0:01:04.000 would be exactly 1 minute and 4 seconds in.

We need another video like this. Great job man :)

And if you don`t want to read through the entire blog here is the most important part Part 3. Not only is anarcho-capitalism not applicable to real life, its claims are logically incongruent. For instance: AnCap claim 1:``If we abolished government there would be no need to fear the Mob or warlords would take over. Most people are decent and honest and would organize against it.`` AnCap Claim 2:``Government is just a criminal take-over of society by warlords and bandits similar to the Mob, ruling via oppression over a mostly decent majority population that cannot or will not organize itself and resist it`` See anything wrong with that? For people who consider government to be a disease, they take a very superficial stance when it comes to treating it. They just say ``Get rid of it and all shall be better`` If you look at the map you may notice those damnable government things are literally all over the place. So clearly there must be some deeper reason for their existence, be it good or bad, right? So where did we first start seeing symptoms? Mesopotamia would be ground zero for this epidemic then. What set ancient Mesopotamia apart from the rest of the planet was its wealth. It was one of the first places human beings were able to amass significantly more wealth than they needed to survive.(Because of the fertile land and developed agriculture) This led to two things: Unprecedented population growth and specialization in labor leading to the first divides between rich and poor. If you are familiar with Orwell, this is where things start to get interesting. These ever-larger communities of humans had rising levels of anti social activity (i.e. raping stealing, murder etc)partly due to the fact it was easier to be evil to strangers,(just like big cities today have more crime than small towns) and partly because the farmers suddenly saw themselves as poor compared to the new rich class of merchants and skilled craftsmen. In Orwell`s language, the High had risen above the Low. Now, in order to defend their wealth, the High needed a class of protectors to defend them against the masses. These protectors had to be organized and armed to supplant the fact they were still vastly outnumbered by the Low. In Orwellese, the Middle were born. Now the wealth of the High was secure from the Low, but now the Middle were the threat. In order to preserve their position, the High turned the Middle against the Low creating a state of perpetual subjugation. And throughout time and space the story has been much the same. The world and civilization have been shaped by the conflicting interests of these three groups. The Middle strive perpetually to become the new High, the High strive to remain the High, and the Low, when they have an aim and are not crushed by drudgery and the routine of their daily lives, strive to depose both groups. And have we reduced wealth inequality? Have human communities become smaller and more tightly bound by morality and respect than they were through the thousands of years of human existence? So would it be reasonable to think that states would stay abolished if we destroyed them? If history has taught us anything it is that destroying the state gives us nothing but a far more brutal state.