Another Part for the Election Special

Naturally, if we exist in a democracy, we must vote.  However, some of use refuse to participate in the system.  Some of us do not think that democracy is the end all be all of existence.  Some of us refuse to believe that just because over 50% of any given sampling say that something is so or should be so that something is automatically correct.  

I find that most people have such faith in democracy that it is simply that faith.  Reason goes right out the window when you have discussion as to its merits.  Most people are completely unprepared to even have a discussion and even questioning democracy leads to most folks just gasping as if something offensive, even taboo, has been said.  Even more so, when the discussion takes the inevitable turn as to whether or not government is even a legitimate need.  

Is government a need?  What would happen if government was phased out and people lived on their own without government?  Chaos? Despair? Murder? Mayhem? Bedlam even? Is that what anarachy means? Chaos? That is certainly what everyone wants us to believe.  The line between anarchy and anti-social behavior is often blurred.  People need to socialize and gather in order to have anything beyond basic needs.  Some turn to government for the answer of how to regulate people when they gather. But, people have a way of organizing and regulating naturally.  That organization is called markets.  People naturally come together to organize so that can get good to which others have access.  Ultimately, a natural incentive process is established that enables people to contribute and receive- an incentive item we call money.  

Government, in all its glory, serves to alter the incentives that naturally establish themselves to such an extent that the ultimate symbol of achievement and freedom– $ — is turned into an evil thing that represents corruption and greed.  This conception of money fuels political elections and government.  Demonizing a beautiful thing like $ is the quickest way to a popularly-elected position today.  Most people who find themselves unable to contribute to society in such a way as to eran a living end up running for public office on a platform of changing incentive structures to redistribute wealth from achievers and accomplish-ers to dredges and do-nothings of society.  ”Entitlement” is the mantra of the demagouge and the prayer of the masses. 

So, as you cast your vote, know that is for a man who could not suceed in serving society through natural means and will work ferverously to strip you of the freedom that humans naturally have when we commune.

~ by justinhsc on October 22, 2008.