Every system people create takes effort to keep working. Someone must keep fixing the problems which otherwise pile up until the system fails. None are "set it and forget it". This is true for all systems of government: democracies, constitutional republics, monarchies, and communist dictatorships.
It even applies in the absence of a system of government, as detractors of anarchy like to point out while they carefully ignore how the same applies to the system they prefer.
Yes, in the absence of government, evil, power-hungry crooks, with the assistance of irresponsible cowards who prefer to live as cattle, will keep trying to impose a government. Just like those who manipulate every governing system to their advantage so they become the ones with the power and the easy wealth. Someone will have to stop them every time they try it.
Everything must be maintained as it breaks down. Nothing is permanent. You can't escape the need to fight entropy.
Why would people who justify not doing something because it isn't permanent brush their teeth, bathe, or eat? They must see no point in cleaning the house or washing laundry. The clean doesn't last forever, so why bother? They must not see why it's necessary to keep fueling their car, because they'll only have to do it again later. It's a strange, childish way to live.
Those who cry "but warlords will take over" in the absence of government ignore reality. It already happened. It's how we ended up replacing a free America with the United States empire through the Constitution. That was the time to rise up and maintain the liberty which was being stolen. Warlords took over, and the people cheered.
I have been blamed for not protecting the Constitution from domestic enemies who violated it and got away with doing so generations before I was born. It's an odd accusation.
The system we are currently living with is a trap. It wasn't properly maintained, plus the seeds of its own destruction were planted at its founding. It's not corrupt, because it's working exactly as designed; those who gain power from the system tried to hide the design from you.
Establishing a state was the mistake. The best part is no part; don't waste time trying to fix what shouldn't exist. The choice is between liberty and government, which can't coexist. Defending liberty against the entropy of those who would govern is your never-ending responsibility.
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That’s the thing about liberty. It is never safely ‘attained’; where you can then go about your personal business without constantly fighting for it and defending it. Freedom is perpetually under threat and attack. Unfortunately, the norm tendency of human society is authoritarian power and control. It seems that the debased characteristics of obedience, submission and safety, at any cost, in the herd have created the opportunity for a corrupt few to expediently exploit this for their own advantage. While the ember of liberty may remain hot buried in the voluminous ash, I despair of it ever taking flame to enlighten the whole because the fuel, the desire for it, is largely absent in humans. I am glad there are a few aberrant individuals where it is present, may they each grow strong and prosper and at least personally prevail.
ReplyDeleteThat is my hope as well.
DeleteI've had people on X tell me there's no point in doing anything about the herd begging to be governed, because it's just human nature. Well, it's not the nature of EVERY human.