ITS IS A CURIOUS THING TO LISTEN TO "ANTI-GOVERNMENT" TEABAGGERS...
THEY SEEM TO MISS THE VITAL ROLE THAT GOVERNMENT PLAYS IN THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION...
YES...I MEAN DEEP CIVILIZATION...AS COMPARED TO BARBARISM...
THE PYRAMIDS OF GIZA COULD BE SEEN AS THE FIRST "KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS" EXPERIMENT...!
AS SOCIETIES EVOLVE...SURPLUSES ARE GENERATED WHICH ALLOW FOR THE FORMATION OF ELITES...AND THOSE ELITES SET UP THE STATE...WHICH IS THE PRIME REQUIREMENT FOR A "CIVILIZATION"...
SO THE STATE IS NOT THE ENEMY OF CIVILIZATION...IT IS ITS CAUSE...!
AND THE NOTION THAT "PRIVATE PARTIES" ARE THE GREAT MOVERS OF CIVIL SOCIETY...AND GOVERNMENT JUST "GETS IN THE WAY"...HAS NO HISTORICAL PRECEDENT...
THE ELITES (USUALLY PRIESTS AND MILITARY) SET UP THE STATE AND IT WORKS FOR THEIR BENEFIT...AND FOR THE BENEFIT AND PROTECTION OF THOSE BELOW...
STATES AND CIVILIZATIONS ONLY FAIL WHEN THE ELITES FAIL...
IN AMERICA TODAY...THE ELITES SEEM TO HAVE ABANDON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE...AND GONE OFF TO ASIA IN SEARCH OF MORE PRIVATE PROFITS...
THIS IS THE CONSEQUENCE WHEN PRIVATE PARTIES ARE SEEN AS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE STATE...AS MANY TEABAGGING REPUBLICANS NOW THINK...
THE POINT IS ... EVERY CIVILIZATION NEEDS A STATE AND AN ELITE THAT CARES ABOUT MAINTAINING IT...AND THAT STATE NEEDS TO HAVE THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE AT HEART...AT SOME LEVEL.
WITHOUT THE STATE...AND THE ELITES WHO SUPPORT IT...ANY CIVILIZATION IS DOOMED...
POWERFUL CIVILIZATIONS RISE AND FALL...ACCORDING TO THEIR ABILITY TO MAINTAIN THE STATE...AND THE ELITES THAT SUPPORT IT...
THE AMERICA ELITES...LIKE ROMNEY AND THE REPUBLICANS...SEEM TO BE MOVING OFF SHORE.... TO ASIA...AND OTHER LOW WAGE ECONOMIES...MERELY TO INCREASE THEIR "PRIVATE PROFITS"...
THAT DOES NOT BODE WELL FOR THE STATE IN AMERICA TODAY...! AND THAT IS THE BASIS FOR THE DECLINE OF AMERICA...
ANY STATE THAT DOES NOT PROTECT ITSELF FROM INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL GREED...WILL FAIL!
THEY SEEM TO MISS THE VITAL ROLE THAT GOVERNMENT PLAYS IN THE HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION...
YES...I MEAN DEEP CIVILIZATION...AS COMPARED TO BARBARISM...
THE PYRAMIDS OF GIZA COULD BE SEEN AS THE FIRST "KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS" EXPERIMENT...!
AS SOCIETIES EVOLVE...SURPLUSES ARE GENERATED WHICH ALLOW FOR THE FORMATION OF ELITES...AND THOSE ELITES SET UP THE STATE...WHICH IS THE PRIME REQUIREMENT FOR A "CIVILIZATION"...
SO THE STATE IS NOT THE ENEMY OF CIVILIZATION...IT IS ITS CAUSE...!
AND THE NOTION THAT "PRIVATE PARTIES" ARE THE GREAT MOVERS OF CIVIL SOCIETY...AND GOVERNMENT JUST "GETS IN THE WAY"...HAS NO HISTORICAL PRECEDENT...
THE ELITES (USUALLY PRIESTS AND MILITARY) SET UP THE STATE AND IT WORKS FOR THEIR BENEFIT...AND FOR THE BENEFIT AND PROTECTION OF THOSE BELOW...
STATES AND CIVILIZATIONS ONLY FAIL WHEN THE ELITES FAIL...
IN AMERICA TODAY...THE ELITES SEEM TO HAVE ABANDON THE AMERICAN PEOPLE...AND GONE OFF TO ASIA IN SEARCH OF MORE PRIVATE PROFITS...
THIS IS THE CONSEQUENCE WHEN PRIVATE PARTIES ARE SEEN AS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE STATE...AS MANY TEABAGGING REPUBLICANS NOW THINK...
THE POINT IS ... EVERY CIVILIZATION NEEDS A STATE AND AN ELITE THAT CARES ABOUT MAINTAINING IT...AND THAT STATE NEEDS TO HAVE THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE AT HEART...AT SOME LEVEL.
WITHOUT THE STATE...AND THE ELITES WHO SUPPORT IT...ANY CIVILIZATION IS DOOMED...
POWERFUL CIVILIZATIONS RISE AND FALL...ACCORDING TO THEIR ABILITY TO MAINTAIN THE STATE...AND THE ELITES THAT SUPPORT IT...
THE AMERICA ELITES...LIKE ROMNEY AND THE REPUBLICANS...SEEM TO BE MOVING OFF SHORE.... TO ASIA...AND OTHER LOW WAGE ECONOMIES...MERELY TO INCREASE THEIR "PRIVATE PROFITS"...
THAT DOES NOT BODE WELL FOR THE STATE IN AMERICA TODAY...! AND THAT IS THE BASIS FOR THE DECLINE OF AMERICA...
ANY STATE THAT DOES NOT PROTECT ITSELF FROM INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL GREED...WILL FAIL!
