Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Governments are necessary; so are Revolutions.
Government is necessary, because the 'Many' at the Bottom of government is constituted of millions of Individuals. The Many are the 'governed', and the One is the 'Sovereign' or the Top. In the 'basic relation' of the One and the Many, Government becomes the 'mode of governing' and the Many, or the People, become the 'governed'. Since both the Top and the Bottom 'arise' from the same 'relation', at which arising, both are 'equals', both must have certain equivalent 'powers' or 'strengths'. In this way, and since both arise from an 'original impulse', each is protected from the other. This helps 'control' the Top from abusive positions of 'institutional power', and 'sets' certain 'conditions' the Bottom must achieve, to protect itself and to 'express' its 'strengths', at the Bottom of the Relation. Of course, the Top must have the 'institutionalized power' of Office. But, the problem with that is that it leaves the Individual, as Individual, at the Bottom, somewhat 'helpless'. She/he, as individual, can't do anything. Hence, in a Constitutional Democracy, the Bottom is given the First Amendment, which grants the Constitutional Right, " peaceably to assemble". That is the Right to Revolution, and is 'reserved' to the 'Many' People, in their 'condition of togetherness'. But, just as the power of government is 'defined' and 'delineated' by Constitutional 'structures', or the Triadic form of Government and Adjudication, the 'Right of Assembly' also has certain constraints. One of those 'constraints', is the general requirement of the Electoral process, which Constitutionally allows for a change of government. It would appear that, if the 'governmental abuse' is so flagrant, that one cannot wait for 'election time', then the right to Revolution kicks-in. Another 'condition' set forth in the Constitution, is that the 'Right' must be exercised as a form of a 'peaceable' assembly. Obviously, there is a great difference between the exercise of the Institutional 'Power at the Top', and the exercise of the 'strength at the Bottom'. Of course, the Top always has the 'institutional advantage' and the only way for the Bottom to surmount that 'disadvantage' is for the Bottom to be correct in its 'analysis' of the 'political' or 'social abuse'; and it must be so obvious that no-one would dispute it; and the 'assembly at the Bottom' must include a 'very large portion' of the Many. A small 'grouping' will not suffice. For example; the Occupy movement. Nevertheless, that 'movement' awoke us from the 'greedy slumbers' of a 'basic economic valuation' of a 'distorted political position'. Other 'distortions' are; infiltration of Plutocratic values into the 'political' structure of democracy; 'Capitalistic impulses' gone bananas; political Offices held by the 1% only; 'Dictatorial motives' for social organizations; extremely un-fair taxation of the 'real People' ( by favoring Corporate taxation); or generally, the 'curtailment' of the 'Freedom and Equality' of the 'real Individual' at the Bottom. Oh Well, at least, at the inception of a 'Constitutional, democratic, way of life', someone had the 'intelligent insight' and, the audacity to 'Constitutionally protect' the 'real persons', Right to revolution.
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