This is definitely an anti-anarchist video. It is a pity the makers imagine it is pro-socialist. The error is an end result of nearly two centuries of doomday speculation palmed off as scientific extrapolation. In the 1830s the Qing Chinese imagined poppy smoking was going to enslave their entire population. In fact, a small minority had this weakness, but included wealthy princes. Their reaction caused the Panic of 1837 in the USA, and the opium wars financed by that withdrawn capital set in motion a series of wars and insurrections that killed some 25 million (2.5 x 10,000,000) Chinese. This entirely wrecked the empire and by 1912 the prediction had run wild in the US. Indian reservations were “dry” by law, lest they (and everyone else) end up walking anarchist drug zombies.
China’s collapse and trade boycotts led the Roosevelt Administration to enlist the European Hague in efforts to use prohibition to do the same thing China tried without success in 1937, or else doom. That led to WW1 pitting opium growing Serbia and Turkey plus other Balkan opium producers and refiners in Germany-Hungary-Austria, France, Great Britain, Belgium and Russia against competing morphine sellers and–as loanshark and Associate–These United States. The Wilson administration got the dope bans TR had sought, but those also stopped Germany from exporting drugs to pay war debts. Herbert Hoover–convinced that banning trade and production brings prosperity–helped the League of Nations to worsen Versailles treaty restrictions in the summer of 1931. German industrialists reacted by funding the Hitler party and another war resulted, with doom to spare.
In the Cold War Era religious Millerites were replaced by newer Rapture fanatics, while anti-industrial doomcriers chorused we’re all gonna die because Aerocols, Ozone, Fallout, Reactor fuel, Nuclear winter, Global warmunism, and so forth–unless electrical power is banned everywhere except in Communist countries. By 1986, enough falsehood had accumulated to prompt Alvarez to explain bolide impact physics in Physics Today, A look at the Moon, her entire surface pocked with huge but unweathered, overlapping impact craters, demonstrates that additional bolide impacts could EASILY trap humanity on its home planet until the window of opportunity for diaspora closes.
The Sun will not last forever, and even a smaller than 20 kilometer bolide impact will suffice to stop all industrial power generation for a long, long time. But deflecting incoming bolides requires technology and power generation capable of also stopping incoming nuclear weapons. Hence the importance of inventing other, communist-friendly Cassandra-crying and replacing free market libertarians with anarco-communist counterfeits palmed off as the real thing.
As they say in Texas: Accept no Substitutskys.
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Good reading: Moral Rights and Political Freedom, by Tara Smith. (link) The book, FINALLY available in Kindle format, is excellent inoculation against all lifeboat-ethics fake alternatives, obfuscation and context-dropping that drives and channels widespread struggling to evade clearly visible reality.
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Get the complete story in Prohibition and The Crash on Amazon Kindle in two languages. After this you’ll be able to explain to economists exactly how fanaticism and loss of freedom wrecked the U.S. economy.
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Brazilian Sci-fi from 1926 featuring the usual beautiful daughter of a scientist touting prohibition and racial collectivism in America’s Black President 2228 by Monteiro Lobato, translated by J Henry Phillips (link)
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