Founding Ideas of Our American Government
Maybe these words won't be so well liked, as a tradition of approving something that may be wrong gives it the fake appearance of being right.
Most people actually think that society or economy and government are the same. In fact, they are fundamentally opposites. Economy is produced by our desires, and government by wickedness. Economy promotes our happiness by uniting our desires, and government negatively influences it by restraining our vices. One is a patron and the other a punisher.
Economy in any state is a blessing, however, even in its best state government is but a necessary evil. In its worst state an intolerable one. When we suffer the same things from our government that we might suffer in a state without government the misery is far worsened because we are required to provide the means (money) that funds such and pain causing government. We're paying for a disservice.
But because we cannot all abide by our conscience to God, we find it necessary to give up part of our wealth as a means to protect the rest. It becomes the least of two evils. Whatever the form of government, the purpose is to secure the most freedom for the least cost.
What is necessary for a government is that the governors do not develop an interest that is separate from the people that they govern over. This is the principle evil of government: that a governing individual will have selfish interest and be anything less than noble, hence the reason dukes and lords referred to themselves as nobles.
So the institution of a republic has only made the government more subtle in there pursuit of these selfish interests, not more just.
"Oppression is rarely a means to get wealth, but it is often the consequence." - Thomas Paine
The only way to root out these conflicting interest is to expose the actions of every governing person. Unfortunately the media is more concerned with exposing the selfish actions of business leaders, than they are of political ones.
Most people actually think that society or economy and government are the same. In fact, they are fundamentally opposites. Economy is produced by our desires, and government by wickedness. Economy promotes our happiness by uniting our desires, and government negatively influences it by restraining our vices. One is a patron and the other a punisher.
Economy in any state is a blessing, however, even in its best state government is but a necessary evil. In its worst state an intolerable one. When we suffer the same things from our government that we might suffer in a state without government the misery is far worsened because we are required to provide the means (money) that funds such and pain causing government. We're paying for a disservice.
But because we cannot all abide by our conscience to God, we find it necessary to give up part of our wealth as a means to protect the rest. It becomes the least of two evils. Whatever the form of government, the purpose is to secure the most freedom for the least cost.
What is necessary for a government is that the governors do not develop an interest that is separate from the people that they govern over. This is the principle evil of government: that a governing individual will have selfish interest and be anything less than noble, hence the reason dukes and lords referred to themselves as nobles.
So the institution of a republic has only made the government more subtle in there pursuit of these selfish interests, not more just.
"Oppression is rarely a means to get wealth, but it is often the consequence." - Thomas Paine
The only way to root out these conflicting interest is to expose the actions of every governing person. Unfortunately the media is more concerned with exposing the selfish actions of business leaders, than they are of political ones.
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