When I dig into any social or societal problem, I find government underlying it. Am I hallucinating?
Even if it's true that government is beneath every social or societal problem, this doesn't mean there's not something even more fundamental than government below that. There could be a root cause that expresses itself as government, which then causes the higher-level trouble.
If that's the case, address the disease that causes government.
But government is still a common factor in all the social problems I've looked at. No matter what else people may try to blame.
It's just not a good strategy to try to govern anyone but yourself. It's going to cause more problems than it solves, every time. You can deny it, you can dispute it, but you can't refute it.
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“It's just not a good strategy to try to govern anyone but yourself.”
ReplyDeleteVery true. It is never ‘good strategy’ to employ an evil and unnatural practice and rulership is the true root of all evil; with the sordid and self-destructive behavior of submission and obedience to authority as its enabling source. This is the underlying flaw in human social character that is the very negation of liberty. When the trait of leadership (voluntarily following the example of one whose actions were admired and respected) was perverted into rulership by the shirking and surrender of individual personal responsibility, that was the moment the slavery of the social ‘herd’ began.
Absolutely.
DeleteIt grates on my nerves when I hear politicians referred to as "leaders". If anyone is following them, they are going the wrong way.