Message to the Voting Cattle
Many thanks to Peter Muller for letting me post this video, which he made five years. The narration is edited excerpts from the audiobook of my novel, "The Iron Web." Various people have posted it under various titles (including "The Complete and Undeniable Truth"), with a combined number of views at well over half a million. So I thought it was time to post it to Dtube, too.
Incidentally, at first I was hesitant about the video being posted at all, just because I thought that, without the surrounding story and context, it would be too blunt and harsh for almost everyone. But I have been pleasantly surprised by how many people have admitted that the video had a major impact on how they view the world.
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Yes, it's me, Peter Muller. I'll give you some background information about this important video. But first many thanks to Larken for this masterpiece and for his incredible work in general.
The German version of this video once was the breakthrough for the philosophy of liberty in Germany and other German-speaking countries like Austria and Switzerland. It was the starting point for a new movement that did not exist before. To be honest, the US version was a sideproduct of the German version called "Nachricht an das Stimmvieh". I bought "The Iron Web" from Larken, found this unique speech in the book, translated it into German and produced the video.
Acidentally I found an audio interview with Larken and the intro was excatly this speech narrated by Larken himself. I took the German video, I changed the audio track and some pictures and "Message to the Voting Cattle" was born. I still remember very well checking the video views on my phone being on summer vacation in Spain. I could not believe what happened with the view counter. And until today this video is one of the most known and most popular videos with anarchist content.
Thanks again, Larken, for your great work! Keep it going!
Nice to know moraliberty is you. I found your post to be very consistent already :)
Thank you for making this video great job. It was the one that did it the most for me, as I mentioned in the other reply. So thank YOU and keep it going too :)
I have to admit Adam Kokesh has got me wrestling with the whole voting issue right now. I feel stupid voting after having argued against it for so long. But I do want to help Adam get his message out. Uuhhgg!!! What to do now? It looks like I have a lot to think about.
Kokesh has a plan to centrally redistribute federal land ownership. You should ask him about that. I’d stick to supporting yourself and your community, and letting the messiah wannabes fade into the background. That may sound harsh, but the idea of “changing” an institution whose very foundation is violence sounds like little more than a money grab to me. Is he going to “change the mafia from the inside”?
No doubt, I waisted years of my life trying to chang the system from the inside. Voting is worthless.
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Mr. Kokesh has shown to be less than totally committed to complete honesty. Have a look at his arrest for smoking pot in Washington, D.C. He pretended to be smoking, and told the cops that came to arrest him he was smoking something else.
A bit later in the video, someone passes him a real joint, and says so, much to his surprise, and then he does get arrested. He lied to people about what he was going to do, and then got tricked into actually doing it.
More recently he claimed he was running for President on the Libertarian Party ticket. Only, the Libertarian Party never nominated him. Right after he made that announcement he was arrested in TX. A bunch of people sent money so he could make bail, which his organization accepted. Then he didn't use that money for bail, instead doing something else with it.
I'll not vote for him, under any circumstances. Rhetoric is utterly baseless. Look at what Obama promised his supporters during his candidacy, and what he delivered when elected. If a man's word is worthless, so is the man.
Character is all that matters.
Plenty for me to look up & chew on...thanks.
I can't listen to that anarchist throw up, I sound like a normal if that's how you approach an audience or sympathize least "you see, you see" empathizing. I probably needed all that extra material to prepare myself for being talked to like ... myself, which is disturbing Larken.
Are you saying that the video resonated with you, or that you hated it?
Drastic language is sometimes needed to wake people up. If you got their interest, give them first Hayek, then Mises and then Rothbard.
If you need to call people cattle right off the bat you better have a fucking world of reason and "necessity" but you're not convincing anyone you care or have their interest by blatant insults.
Whom does Larken insult? someone Seriously, don't see him doing this in the vid.
Cattle is a term you give People? You say "you cattle" to people? Have you done that, have you addressed a person as a bovine?
I can't see a difference between voters and cattle.
So voter's have no rights? Can you herd them and send them to slaughter? Who the fuck are you?
Such a quick dose of reality, I love it.
Blunt and harsh, but an antidote to the euphemisms of the State, media and politicians.
This is the one that did it for me in hindsight. (the most dangerous superstition was the other)
Thanks for writing it. Und Peter von freiwilligfrei, ich danke dir auch.