Thursday, March 27, 2014

Government is a 'mere function', and it needs People, otherwise, who needs government?

Government is a mere function of the 'organization' of all the People within any particular Nation. This is true, regardless the 'form' of a government. It could be in the 'form' of a Democracy; an Autocracy; an Oligarchy; a Plutocracy; or an outright Dictatorship. The point is that its a mere function of the organization of the millions of People who constitute the Nation and who are situated at the Bottom. In an Autocracy, or a Dictatorship, or a Plutocracy, or an Oligarchy, the Top of government is not dependent on the People at the Bottom of government. Of course, that doesn't sound right, and, of course, there are many gradations in the relation between the Top and the Bottom. But, that relation is what 'binds' the Top to the Bottom and determines the dependence of the Top to the people it governs. In government forms, other than democracies, the People are out of the picture. The Top rules and that's the end of it. Notice, that all forms of government, have to 'govern', and they do so, in any way they please. The Sanctity or the Freedom and Equality of the 'individual' is not a consideration. That's the quagmire, that a Democracy finds itself in, when other Nations are being 'abusive' of their own citizens. Does 'democracy' have a right to intervene in the domestic matters of another Nation? Of course, that would be a 'long discourse', but the issue becomes, how does this effect the other Nations. In most cases, it doesn't effect other Nations. Yet, the human condition in all the above listed Forms of government, is the same human condition as in a Democracy. How does 'humanity', as a 'condition of togetherness' tolerate the 'imbalances', the 'destruction', and the abuses of the human condition. Democracy is not perfect; but neither, is any other form of government. Yet, the human beings are all the same. Governments never create People, People created the Governments. It's sad, that we cannot govern ourselves.

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