Check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiywNmmVYYA
Feedback welcome.
Clayton -
5 *
very good. i linked to it on my facebook
Much appreciated.
Excellent.
Fantastic. I posted it to reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/aljdi/every_second_of_your_existence_is_dominated_by_it/
Great.
My only problem is that the beggining argument you gave with: “If the government is us then why can’t we…” I felt was rather simple and could have used some work. You also should have pointed to war a little more.
Other than these slight things, very good. 5 Starred and favorited
I was trying to think of a way to give the viewer a mental “slap in the face” to challenge one of the most prevalent and effective modern myths of the state, namely, that we are the government. Of course, it’s obvious that “we, the people” are not the government but how do you challenge a presuppositional belief which people hold without question or introspection? The only quick, simple way I could think of would be to ask the viewer to contemplate this question: “Why can’t you treat government property as your own if, in fact, you are the government?”
Stars appreciated - I agree that some more focus on war would have been good - the list of state crimes in the middle of the video is mostly comprised of war crimes. I have some more video ideas in this format on the mental drawing board, one of them would talk about the topics of police brutality and war crimes. I would like to use photo stills in that presentation to make it more effective.
Clayton -
If Hitler and his Nazi’s were a gov’t that represented all its citizens, then when Hitler were exterminating the Jews the Jews were really committing suicide.
It’s too long… I got bored. Shorten it by a minute if possible.
Also, the colors are rather dull. Something to spice up the video would be nice.
Keep in mind that I’m thinking about the short-attention span of the average person. If I had to rate the video after inputting my libertarian bias, I’d obviously give it 5/5 stars.
It slows down a little at the end but the important stuff is up front. 
In my defense, this is only my 2nd “powerpoint video”. I chose simple black and white to maximize contrast and accessibility (i.e. color-blind folks, etc.) My next vid will likely have some photo stills in it, though I think I’m going to stick to black and white for the text slides for the reasons already given.
Thanks for the rating. I agree that people have a short attention span but bear in mind that the video is much shorter than the time required to read the relevant material by Boetie, Rothbard, Hoppe and others to access the same arguments against the state that are presented in the video. I front-loaded the video with the arguments against the state and tried to leverage the length of the song (it is seven and a half minutes long) to provide more backup for those arguments for the individuals interested to keep watching to find out more. Yes, I let the song dictate the length of the video. I fully expect YouTube to disable the video due to the soundtrack’s copyright as they did with my last video. Such is life. We’ll see.
Clayton -