I’m inspired by a recent thread made by Void_X_Zero regarding anarchic government.
What is ‘Government’?
Answering his questions, I realized that what people refer to as “The Government” is an abstraction of what they believe, personally and subjectively, is political power. People imagine “TG” according to their knowledge, wisdom, ideals, and imagination. It is according to their belief-systems and faith, that people conceive the notion of power and authority. Thus all forms of TG are abstractions of power, based on that authority, and its rationalization/justification.
For example, Modern US is democratic, a “Democracy”. Why is it this way? Mostly because people believe it is this way, and ought to be this way. However Democracy, actually, is simply mob-rule. It is “majority takes all”, 51% speaks for the other 49%. And because Democracy is this way, it is fundamentally flawed. It is obviously irrational to claim that 51% of the population speaks for, or represents, the 49% minority. Furthermore, about Democracy, it is a rather infantile, immature, and feminine ideology. It is based on emotions, how people feel rather than what is Righteous or True. For example, Science is not Democratic. You can’t vote on whether Gravity exists. Majority-vote does not win, with Science. Thus different ideologies require different fundamental patterns, logic, and order.
A “Scientific” styled government would be Autocratic, ruled by (scientific-intellectual) elites and professors.
Governments come and go throughout history, and generally represent the “will of the people”. When political leaders exploit the “will of the people” then anything can happen, as with the rise of Nazi and Hitler in Germany. Governments can change, based on the challenges of certain centuries or eras. Earthly environments are never static, and always changing, despite the human instinct to create and maintain, to preserve a ‘civil’ manipulation. Humanity tries to impose Artifice (civilization) upon Nature. The wild is manufactured into concrete jungles.
Government is a genetic expression. The East Asian, Chinese, for example, are Totalitarian Communists. Because they are a strongly and distinctly homogeneous race, with very little or no racial mixing, for thousands of years. The Chinese civilization and empire is exclusive, not inclusive, scrutinizing to foreigners, anti-individualistic, severely socialistic, and expelled the Mongolian tribes and hordes long ago. The expulsion of the Mongols, by the Chinese, in more ancient history, caused them to spread outward to new lands, including the Americas, first Native American Indians, and also into the Philippines, an example today would be the Samoan tribes whom the Mongols intermixed with Philippine residents.
Governments are the results of centuries of “civil progress”. Western European civilization is dominated by Græco-Roman culture, history, and warfare. Western governments and people are more “Universalist”, multi-cultural, “tolerant”, and liberal. This is because, over centuries, the dominating Roman culture integrated conquered peoples (slaves) into their society, causing fractures, chaos, revolts, rebellions (anarchy), which had to be quelled from time to time, using physical force and military arms. Judaism is representative of this antagonism between early European Romans, and slave societies, whom Jews-Semites-Hebrews appealed to and seduced with the Abrahamic God. Rome eventually absorbed the slave masses and Jews as well, by forming the ideology of Christianity, which before that, was called Stoicism. Stoics were used to suppress slave uprisings, some of the times, instigated purposely by Jews, who never accepted, and to this day still reject, the Papacy of Rome. In later centuries, Jews appealed to Northern European pagans, forming alliances under the guise of “Protestantism”. The enemy of my enemy (Rome), is my friend, hence Jews slowly intermingled throughout Europe across the centuries.
Western history of Government is extensive, and I cannot go in depth so quickly, so I’ll return to my main point.
Governments, ultimately, are reflections of people, their character, their beliefs, and most importantly, representative of their Faith. Everybody has ‘Faith’ in one form or another. Everybody has conceptions of “Authority”. And when you investigate the primary conception of Authority of any individual, that is the root of what he or she knows of “The Government”.