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The huge central government of every major nation in the world would
like to be immortal. It would like to exist for all time. It would
like to justify its status and importance by continuing on into an
indefinite future. It would like to become so powerful
and persistent that no citizen even bothers to imagine an alternative.
The current size of government in any big city in the world dwarfs the
original 18th-century federal government in the United States. And this
isn't even considering the various partnerships modern governments
enter into with giant corporations and banks.
Modern governments help spawn synthetic archetypes, the most prominent
of which is "good citizen." A person tries to support and obey all the
rules and edicts, while somehow working to improve government. The
archetype exists because the most important element
has been lost: PARTICIPATION.
The Constitutional design of American government allowed for citizen
participation. Certainly, city governments could withstand direct
citizen participation.
Now we have delusional participation. People believe they are making a
contribution. But somehow, the reach and intrusion of government grows
like a fungus. The overall solution to every problems seems to be: GET
LARGER. Give birth to new bureaus and ministries
and departments and rules and sub-rules. At this rate, it won't be
very long before 60-70% of the population works for, and draws a
paycheck from, some office of the government.
This is how modern government becomes The State. It doesn't matter much
who temporarily has control of key positions in government---sheer size
and weight keep expanding. People's very lives are looked at as
functions of regulations.
NOW you have, in what seems to be the blink of an eye (but is actually a
long slow protracted blink), a sea of dissatisfied people. You have
vegans and vegetarians and onanists and bicyclists and runners and
health freedom activists and petty criminals and
lawyers and poverty-stricken philosophers and disaffected religionists
and artists and cyber-space addicts and a hundred other categories of
people who, in their minds and hearts and souls, are thinking about
REBELLION.
They are cut off from the ruling force and wave of The State, and they are looking for an out.
They are aware that the prevailing structure is far too complex and anti-human.
This gathering phenomenon of rebels does not go unnoticed. Those with
political power settle on a response: more of the same. More inhibiting
rules, larger government. CONTROL. The natives are restless. They
must be pacified. They must be entangled.
And as a sop, they must be given more free gifts, in order to settle
them down. Of course, those free gifts are paid for with tax money.
Does all this sound like a winning formula for an immortal State?
"Sir, believe me, I understand your objection. But the rule is the
rule. You think standing on your head in the rain while whatever you
have drops out of your pockets and is collected by our officer is
senseless and unjust. Yes, I understand. And you believe
that while standing on your head, being examined by one of our doctors,
who is in touch with seven other physician specialists involved in your
case, is an overwrought procedure. And you further believe that the
dozens of ways in which we can identify you,
by numbers, is intrusive and demeaning. Yes. But again, the rule is
the rule. If everyone rejected rules they thought were unnecessary, the
whole system would eventually collapse, and we would have sheer chaos.
Is that what you want? I remind you: this
phone call is being recorded, for training purposes..."
THE INDIVIDUAL VS. THE STATE is more than a well-worn phrase.
Just as organized religion believes it has an exclusive and proprietary
pipeline to God---and therefore humans must enlist in its structure, The
State actually believes it is granting citizens whatever rights
exist---as if rights, such as freedom, only come
into being as a result of The State.
Remember the opening sentence of Orwell's 1984? "It was a bright cold
day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." The 13th strike
signified the power of The State to rearrange reality in any arbitrary
configuration. Its relentless push to impose
control on its citizens, under the guise of "doing good," had reached a
point of psychosis.
Highly regulated and organized psychosis, presented to the public as an illustration of rational mental health.
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