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Full Audiobook: 


Preparing the Reader: 


PART I: The Most Dangerous Superstition


Starting with the Punchline: 


Overview: 


Identifying the Enemy: 



No Such Thing / Government Does Not Exist: 

 

Offshoots of the Superstition: 

 

Attempting to Rationalize the Irrational: 

 

The Myth of Consent: 

 

More Mythology: 

 

The Secret Ingredient: 

 

The Excuse of Necessity: 

 

PART II: Disproving the Myth



Letting Go of the Myth: 

 

Why the Myth is Tempting: 

 

The Religion of “Government”: 

 

"Authority" = Immoral Violence: 

 

Who Gave Them the Right?: 

 

Altering Morality: 

 

The Unavoidability of Judging: 

 

Part III: The Effects of the Superstition

 

Effects of the Myth: 

 

PartIII(a): The Effects on the Masters

 

The Divine Right of Politicians: 

 

Part III(b): The Effects on the Enforcers

 

Following Orders: 

 

The Milgram Experiments: 

 

Teaching Blind Obedience: 

 

Making Monsters: 

 

Demonizing the Victim: 

 

What the Badge Means: 

 

Noble Motives, Evil Actions: 

 

Proudly Committing Evil: 

 

Part III(c): The Effects on the Targets

 

Proud to be Robbed: 

 

Proud to be Controlled: 

 

The Good Funding the Evil: 

 

Digging Their Own Graves: 

 

The Effects on Actual Criminals: 

 

Part III(d): The Effects on the Spectators

 

The Sin of Non-Resistance: 

 

Imagining “Legal” Evil to Be Good: 

 

Obligation to Do Wrong: 

 

Double Standard on Violence: 

 

The Danger of Inaction: 

 

Part III(e): The Effects on the Advocates

 

“Legalized” Aggression: 

 

Excuses for Aggression: 

 

Charity Through Violence: 

 

Advocates of Brutality: 

 

Forced Benefits: 

 

Attacking to Defend / Violence for Protection: 

 

 

Violence by Default / When in Doubt, Advocate Violence: 

 

How the Myth Defeats Virtue: 

 

“Liberal” Cowardice: 

 

“Conservative” Cowardice: 

 

True Tolerance: 

 

Big or Small, Left or Right, It’s Still Evil: 

 

No Objective Standard: 

 

The Effects on Freedom Advocates: 

 

The Rules of the Game: 

 

Legitimizing Oppression: 

 

The Libertarian Contradiction: 

 

Same as the Old Boss: 

 

A Mix of Wisdom and Insanity: 

 

The Contract Myth: 

 

Part IV: Life Without the Superstition

 

The Solution: 

 

Reality is Anarchy: 

 

Fear of Freedom: 

 

Seeing a Different World: 

 

A World Without Rulers: 

 

Thinking Differently, Talking Differently: 

 

Teaching Morality v. Teaching Authority: 

 

No Master Plan: 

 

You Rule You, I Rule Me: 

 

A Different Society: 

 

A Different Kind of Rules: 

 

Organization Without “Authority”: 

 

Defense Without Authority: 

 

Deterrents and Incentives: 

 

Anarchy in Action: 

 

Anti-Authoritarian Parenting: 

 

Halfway There: 

 

The Road to Justice: 

 

Side Effects of the Myth: 

 

What Society Could Be / What Might Have Been: 

 

 

Accepting Reality: 

 

The Punch Line Revisited: