-Caveat Lector-
On Thu, 14 Dec 2000 16:11:34 -0500 "M.A. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>-Caveat Lector-
>Will of the People?
>by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
>The state needs to invent an endless series of
>myths about its powers and importance in order to
>exist, and there is no bigger myth than the notion
>that democratic governments are mere expressions
>of "the will of the people." No matter how heinous
>the deeds performed by democratic governments,
>no matter how much property they steal or people
>they kill at home and abroad, the basic institutions
>of the state are almost never challenged because
>they supposedly enjoy the support of "the will of
>the people."
The will of the people was last best expressed in 1776. You are correct
about the rest of the 224 years since then.
>This means that what little the average, rationally
>ignorant citizen does know about government tends to
>be mostly lies and statist propaganda.
We only recognize what affects us directly. We have been placed in water
and the heat has bee turned up incrementally. Most do not realize that
the precious Constitution no longer applies. As long as the people, in
general are fat, dumb and happy, they don't care.
> What all of this means is that government at all levels devotes
>enormous energy and resources to manufacturing the
>will of the people, not merely responding to it.
>Government has become the master, not the servant, of
>the people, even under democracy. Unless we want to
>live our lives as serfs, working for half the year or
>longer to feed the voracious appetites of the tax
>collectors, the powers of the state need to be scaled
>back as much as is humanly possible.
There is only one way to accomplish this: take the lesson the founding
fathers taught us and repeat it till we get it right. They, too, found
themselves living under a represive government which overtaxed them, was
not in any way responsive to their needs or wishes, and used armed men to
enforce the dictates handed down from on high. It may be happenstance
that our new "leader" is George II, or it may be a"sign".
> The free market is the only institution about which it can be said
>that the will of the people is satisfied.
That depends on what you mean by a "free market". A very big part of our
problems stem from the power of Big Corporations and the wealthy 1%. If
you mean that corporations and wealthy people should have free reign, I
would agree only if all of the power is vested in the people, with state
and federal governments having only very limited power in very narrow
areas. I would much prefer doing away with capitalism entirely, and
replacing it with a better way. However, that is entirely too long a
dialogue to go into, and is mostly beside the point in this discussion.
Suffice it to say that we have the knowledge, technology and resources to
provide a good life for everyone IF we share things fairly.
Jayson R. Jones
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