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b'This week Jad and I consider the idea of how a government forms - essentially out of thin air.\\n\\nOnce a government gets up and running, we go on to consider how people are convinced to accept the various ills that any government in existence is known to partake in (of course we consider this from the point of the United States). We consider various outlets of marketing and how governments amplify the rampant violence around the world.\\n\\nMaterial from Podcast\\nMusic\\n\\nLucidity by Tame Impala.\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nTranscript of Podcast\\n\\nKevin: Hello and welcome to another installment of the JK Podcast, an antiauthoritarian free speech zone dedicated to the pursuit of liberty, humanity, and equality for all.\\xa0 This week, Jad and I consider the idea of how a government forms essentially out of thin air. To go back to our story, if you had 20 people on an island or whatever the case may be, what happens?\\xa0 How does a government form?\\xa0 How does a leader come about from that?\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Once a government gets up and running, we go on to consider how people are convinced to accept the various ills that any government in existence is known to partake in.\\xa0 Of course we consider this from the point of view of the United States.\\xa0 We also consider various outlets of marketing and how governments amplify their rampant violence around the world.\\xa0 I\\u2019m Kevin Ludlow and as always, joined by my co-host, Jad Davis.\\xa0 Welcome back to the JK Podcast. To go back to our story, if you had 20 people on an island or whatever the case may be, what happens?\\xa0 How does a government form?\\xa0 How does a leader come about from that?\\xa0 And I think we poignantly and I would assume accurately conclude that what happens is is that you\\u2019ve got a guy who\\u2019s able to perform whatever the responsibility of defense or offense is for the group and you need that guy and if it were you and me and a bunch of other guys and one of those guys is well armed and a real good shot, I have a feeling that we\\u2019d have to pair up with him a little bit and say, \\u201cwell, I\\u2019ll go fetch apples for you, just keep killing the bad guys because you\\u2019re the leader\\u201d, and I think that\\u2019s kind of a parallel or really kind of just a metaphor for exactly what we\\u2019re talking about in these types of situations. Jad:\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Right. Kevin: I think. Jad:\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 Well I think the interesting thing \\u2013 and I\\u2019m not just trying to say that that\\u2019s not how it happens or whatever \\u2013 but that is the story, right, of how it happens.\\xa0 So the question then is is that a story that you\\u2019re told so that whoever is in charge now is like, \\u201coh yeah, well back then, what happened was my ancestors protected your ancestors and now you owe me\\u201d.\\xa0 Like I mean, it\\u2019s not quite that simple.\\xa0 But the story is that we have to have those guys there \\u2013 Kevin: Right. Jad:\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 [?] the key part of the story is that in some weird magical way we have asked for them to do what they do, right? Kevin: Right.\\xa0 Right.\\xa0 Right. Jad:\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 It implicitly \\u2013 either God put them above us, or we have a social contract, or whatever it is, but somehow \\u2013 and this is interesting, I was gonna write an article to do with that crazy sniper who got shot in Texas, his narrative that he tells is about how horrible it is that he had to take this burden of butchering women and children upon himself so that the rest of us could be free.\\xa0 So it\\u2019s a complete immersion in that story whereas what actually happens is the guy gets on a plane, travels 10,000 miles, and kills a bunch of people that are defending their homes.\\xa0 The story is that he\\u2019s protecting us, right?\\xa0 And even the story that most Americans believe is that that guy\\u2019s protecting us, which kind of makes me wonder if that whole narrative of the reason that these people are in charge is because this is just the natural way that things evolve is real or just part of that same story. Kevin: Yeah.\\xa0 I don\\u2019t even have a good response to that.\\xa0 I completely agree with that, I mean we\\u2019ve discussed it countless times as well,'