This is the Root of Almost Every Problem We Face
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This is the Root of Almost Every Problem We Face
And it's What has Caused the Collapse of Governments Over and Over for 10,000 Years
It was a great day on Substack yesterday, but too much time procrastinating on my garden. I need to get the rest of it planted today! It’s a gorgeous day here, finally, after several days of rain.
I left so many comments in reply to commenters yesterday that could really serve as their own posts.
Here was one. Discuss. See you in the evening in the comments feed, perhaps.
This is the Root of Almost Every Problem We Face
What's the old line about taxation without representation? Does anyone feel represented in Washington, or any other western capital? There is the form of representation but no substance.
This urge to obey without question, to submit to authority no matter how absurd, unjustified, or observably incompetent it is, is childish. Mature humans cooperate, and they do so within social hierarchies, but they do so because they choose to do so. They can withdraw their cooperation at any time. The chieftain may be the leader of the commitatus, but he does so merely as primus inter pares; the warriors who swore their fealty to him may withdraw their support should the chieftain break the oaths on the basis of which their fealty was sworn.
That is not how the weak, deceptive worms that have usurped the leadership of our social order see it, of course. Knowing full well that they deserve no respect for their persons, they demand respect for their offices; and ban all challenge as they know they cannot survive any challenge. To defend their rule they take steps to make sure the ruled are too weak to challenge them, and this has succeeded in many cases, but at the cost that the rulers have themselves become even weaker. Eventually, they will be too frail to hold on to power, and the cycle will begin again.
Earlier today my wife and I were enjoying a coffee in our garden and while I was gazing up at all the aircraft flying high above the ground ( we live under an air corridor) wondering where they were all going, my eye caught three buzzards high up soaring on thermals. Two were showing off to a third, probably female :) and gave us both a wonderful aerobatic display. My point? The world of nature neither knows or cares.