The appeal of government is always a perceived distance from negative consequences.

Whenever you don’t want to take responsibility and fix something you tell yourself that’s what they are for and they will at least make some sort of effort but that’s not true.

All they do is abuse your trust and find more and more creative ways to uphold the illusion of freedom.

Government is cancer because the whole premise of government is that you can’t live your life without being ruled. If you accept that game, they will always be a step ahead of you.

We need to take personal responsibility for our share in any systems of governance.

Government is the transformation of a service to the the people into a ruler of the people.

It’s always unnecessary and never works.

The Shock Doctrine is Canadian author and social activist Naomi Klein's companion piece to her popular 2007 book of the same name.

The shock doctrine suggests that in periods of chaos often following wars, coups, natural disasters and economic panics, pro-corporate reformers aggressively push through unpopular “free market” measures. Klein posits that followers of Milton Friedman and other market fundamentalists have been perfecting this very strategy: waiting for a major crisis, then selling off pieces of the state to private players while citizens were still reeling from the shock, then quickly making the "reforms" permanent.

The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire, is a documentary film that shows how Britain transformed from a colonial power into a global financial power. At the demise of empire, City of London financial interests created a web of offshore secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it behind obscure financial structures in a web of offshore islands. Today, up to half of global offshore wealth may be hidden in British offshore jurisdictions and Britain and its offshore jurisdictions are the largest global players in the world of international finance. How did this come about, and what impact does it have on the world today? This is what the Spider's Web sets out to investigate. With contributions from leading experts, academics, former insiders and campaigners for social justice, the use of stylized b-roll and archive footage, the Spider's Web reveals how in the world of international finance, corruption and secrecy have prevailed over regulation and transparency, and the UK is right at the heart of this.