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There are two parts to government power. On the one hand there are the
cooperative endeavors, basically benign, that sets up the major
infrastructure, and the courts and gathers statistics and sets standards --
the tool part. Like on a computer, there's a bunch of tools to work with --
and you pull down a menu and use that tool --then you put it away. Your
ideas and thoughts are your own -- not the computers - -you merely use
the tools offered.
Then there is the government as Club. These are all the programs
and rules and actions that in anyway prohibit the rights to survival and
work that individuals try to do. These are the things which people bitterly
contest.
Few people complain about the parts of government that pave the
roads, build the bridges and supply a court system. But every one
complains about one or another aspects of the Club part of government.
The club part is the part that stems from divine rule and Specialness. The
belief that the government has some right to interfere in what people do
comes directly from the idea that God set them down on earth to decide
for everyone.
If the universe needed a leader, GOD, then of course the earth
needed a ruler too -- THE KING. However, evolution as a theory of
happenstance undermined GOD at the center of the universe, which it
intended to do, or was at least known by Darwin himself as a theory
which would call into question the central position of God. But the
unintended part of Darwin is to also call into question the Divine Right of
Kings. For if God didn't rule the universe it becomes impossible to claim
that God put the leader on earth for the people.
However, the people with the power were loath to give up the power,
and so they used other words to get what they wanted. The club of
government all over the world is scarcely weaker than it was centuries
ago. The technology itself has accorded the club a better chance at
success than long ago.
cooperative endeavors, basically benign, that sets up the major
infrastructure, and the courts and gathers statistics and sets standards --
the tool part. Like on a computer, there's a bunch of tools to work with --
and you pull down a menu and use that tool --then you put it away. Your
ideas and thoughts are your own -- not the computers - -you merely use
the tools offered.
Then there is the government as Club. These are all the programs
and rules and actions that in anyway prohibit the rights to survival and
work that individuals try to do. These are the things which people bitterly
contest.
Few people complain about the parts of government that pave the
roads, build the bridges and supply a court system. But every one
complains about one or another aspects of the Club part of government.
The club part is the part that stems from divine rule and Specialness. The
belief that the government has some right to interfere in what people do
comes directly from the idea that God set them down on earth to decide
for everyone.
If the universe needed a leader, GOD, then of course the earth
needed a ruler too -- THE KING. However, evolution as a theory of
happenstance undermined GOD at the center of the universe, which it
intended to do, or was at least known by Darwin himself as a theory
which would call into question the central position of God. But the
unintended part of Darwin is to also call into question the Divine Right of
Kings. For if God didn't rule the universe it becomes impossible to claim
that God put the leader on earth for the people.
However, the people with the power were loath to give up the power,
and so they used other words to get what they wanted. The club of
government all over the world is scarcely weaker than it was centuries
ago. The technology itself has accorded the club a better chance at
success than long ago.