The God of the Machine - Tranche 15
Posted by mshupe 1 year, 5 months ago to Government
Chapter VII, Excerpt 1 of 1
The Noble Savage
It was a profound shock to discover that crime was rather less prevalent among savages than in a society with authoritarian government. The savages practiced most of the lay virtues: courage, hospitality, truthfulness, loyalty; true that they made war and were sometimes cruel, but Europeans made war and legalized torture. Being acquainted firsthand with the limitations of a primitive culture, men of intellect had no desire to revert to savagery in quest of a sentimental illusion.
If government did not prevent crime and enforce virtue, what did it do? Contract had become the prevailing relation, but the theory of status had not been explicitly repudiated by limitation of the scope of government. To talk of several ‘freedoms’ is to use the language of Europe. So, the whole course of history was repeated, run off again, before the eyes of Americans. Freedom was indivisible, a precondition. Since volition is a function of the individual, the individual has the precedent right.
The Noble Savage was a syllogism, a logical construction from the premises of the European theory of government. Secular authority resided in society, which was an entity; and men were born in subjection to it. This sounds so admirable that of late attempts have been made to reinstate unbreakable tenure, such as seniority in jobs (beginning with civil service), and government endowed “subsistence colonies.” These are accepted without recognition of the inevitable corollary; it is the return of serfdom.
The Noble Savage
It was a profound shock to discover that crime was rather less prevalent among savages than in a society with authoritarian government. The savages practiced most of the lay virtues: courage, hospitality, truthfulness, loyalty; true that they made war and were sometimes cruel, but Europeans made war and legalized torture. Being acquainted firsthand with the limitations of a primitive culture, men of intellect had no desire to revert to savagery in quest of a sentimental illusion.
If government did not prevent crime and enforce virtue, what did it do? Contract had become the prevailing relation, but the theory of status had not been explicitly repudiated by limitation of the scope of government. To talk of several ‘freedoms’ is to use the language of Europe. So, the whole course of history was repeated, run off again, before the eyes of Americans. Freedom was indivisible, a precondition. Since volition is a function of the individual, the individual has the precedent right.
The Noble Savage was a syllogism, a logical construction from the premises of the European theory of government. Secular authority resided in society, which was an entity; and men were born in subjection to it. This sounds so admirable that of late attempts have been made to reinstate unbreakable tenure, such as seniority in jobs (beginning with civil service), and government endowed “subsistence colonies.” These are accepted without recognition of the inevitable corollary; it is the return of serfdom.
The desire of some for world domination probably began in the cave dwellings of our hunter-gatherer ancestors. It has taken them maybe 10,000 to 15,000 years, but now they stand at the precipice of the achievement viz. One Society, One Planet, One Government ruled by the Elite. “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for…” Barack Obama circa 2009 to an assembled group of elites. He echoed Attorney Johnnie Cochran’s “If not us, who? If not now. When?”
They know how close they are to realizing their dream. The only impediment to success is the egomania of the ruling participants; Xi wants the One World to be Chinese, Putin-Russian, Biden-who knows?
My only hope lies in the quote “If your belief conflicts with empirically confirmed knowledge, then you are not seeking meaning; you are delusional…” Sabine Hossenfelder Existential Physics. The hope that the delusions of the Elites will cause them to self-destruct and not destroy all life on Earth at the same time. Else wise, those, not Elite, who survive, will be the new serfs.
"Somebody needs to do something — it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us."
Jefferson's "Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed." leads me to ask why do humans accept slavery as normal?
Since they typically did not have writing, they had no formal set of documented laws, therefore fewer things were considered "crimes". However, any minor infraction that pissed off the chief could result in death.