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Honest Government |
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WindWalker Senior Member
since 2001-10-12
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An old adage: “Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Now let’s add this corollary: “all power tends to the absolute.” To a large extent human societies are on an endless quest for justice. This must mean, for honest government: can there ever be such a thing? The answer is a resounding “no!” Government is a power collective. Power collectives can only work when powered by their mind slaves, their believers. Once a people believe in duly constituted authorities - be these God, Government or Money- these can literally get away with murder: murder of society, of the environment. Where there are secrets and secret societies or groupings shenanigans must be going on or what would be the point of such an exercise? What government does not operate in secret? Democracies have proven no better in this than other forms of authoritarian power. A “government” can only remain in power as long as it possesses something a competitive collective does not have. There is but one way for humans to finally have “honest” government: to become honest themselves, individually self empowered, and rid themselves forever of their authoritarian leeches. |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
WW....Your title is an oxymoron. I can tell you put alot of thought into the poem. |
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