[quote=The Great Owl]I was trying to enlighten a friend this weekend and he basically ran a similar logic that basically the natural tendancy of the masses is to let themselves slip into the grip of tyrany.
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Rather than a natural tendancy to slip, which would be terrible, I think that Pete Hendrickson ( CRACKING THE CODE) has defined the problem more like being *lead down a path*,and admonishes us to share with the new generations, the fable THE EMPERORS NEW CLOTHES, so they can learn much of human behavior and particularly the foibles of institutionalized power.
"Most people don't like responsibility (freedom is slavery) and want to be taken care of and told what to do. A very few people lust for power and will use any means necessary to lord over the masses."
It is my opinion that many good people like responsibility and though it is true that there are those who lust for power, they are an unchecked minority. Hendrickson goes on to make the point that there is indeed a vast conspiracy
of deception, and there are many players, but it is a soft conspiracy, as opposed to a hard, cold and calculated one. It is a conspiracy without an explicit plot, but nonetheless advancing a common agenda, which he compares to paracitic infestation. Each individual parasite isn't necessarily aware of the activities of its fellows, but each in undirected concert contributes to the destruction of the host!
"Humans seem to have a unique "God sense" call it the duality of man, immortal soul, whatever, we tend to seek higher truths and a connection with a greater infinite wisdom (God). This is a MAJOR drive/need for the human being, it's as real as hunger, thirst, and need to procreate. The few who lust for power take advantage of this."
Conscious humans-- yes I agree. I respectfully disagree that all feel the drive/need for the wisdom however. Once man has satisfied his basic needs it is for those in search of the reasons to exist, *happiness and productive contribution* to be exposed to a philosophy of life in the conscious realm. Only from a philosophy come the conscious understandings of ethics (and morality), and in my opinion, Ayn Rand's *PHILOSOPHY-WHO NEEDS IT* explains it so well! As far as a lust for power, it could be softened somewhat to accommodate the future leaders in not only the republican government, but-that governmant existing in another scenario which has hardly been tried in man's history-that being capitalism, which stearted and ended in America in a short span within the 20th century.
"I would have to say that a Republican form of government is the highest ideal ever formulated. Unfortunately, apathy, laziness, and ignorance of the masses are it's downfall... and the reason that the few can enslave the many so easily. My personal theory is that people en masse will need to reach a new spiritual paradigm before a lasting republic could ever last.
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And I would add- a Republican form of government, embracing hands off free enterprise Capitalism, and the expose' of myth and mysticism (ala the Matrix)
are closer to the new reality than the end of our civilisation at the thresh hold of annilation. To be right, will require the end of mysticism ,from the Platonic meme, through the Attila and the witch doctor memes( politics and religious). Hendrickson says , "It is a conspiracy of sloth,and ignorance and plunder and fear. And a good share of corruption and lies, of course."