mysticism: believing in non-reality as though it were real -- believing in illusions as though they were real. Acting on non-reality believing it is real -- acting on illusions believing they are real.
Politicians, bureaucrats and parasitical elites are dependent on people's mysticism. For it is by manipulating people via their harbored mysticism that they enrich themselves while draining the host -- parasitical elites leeching off value producers.
For each law there are politicians and bureaucrats and often special interest lobbyists asserting that various harms will come to people without the proposed new law. The law intends to head of or halt the inevitable harm to people. That's how the large majority of laws and regulations come to pass. It's the great harm and suffering that the new laws and regulations are meant to squash.
That's the underlying premise.
Surely, without the this year's new laws and regulations persons would run themselves and society headlong toward destruction. That's what politicians and bureaucrats premised their creating of this years new laws. Just as they did last year, decades before, centuries pat for over two millennia. Be it political rule or religious rule, the premise has always been to save man and society from man himself.
But what has really changed over the past two thousand years? Has the nature of man changed?
It certainly seems appropriate to state that politicians and bureaucrats believe that man's nature is to self-destruct. However wrong they are -- very wrong -- with almost every person breaking the law several times each year -- most people unaware when they are breaking the law -- people and society have not self-destructed.
How can it be that just a hundred years ago man and his society were able to so greatly increase the health and prosperity of people and society without the new laws to come in 1907 and new laws in 1908 and the years and decades that followed with evermore new laws and regulations? Why did the people of those past times not self-destruct themselves and take society down with them? How is it that people of our current day do not run themselves and society headlong to destruction without the benefit of the new laws and regulations to come in 2007, 2008 and for the next twenty-five, fifty and one-hundred years?
Man is not by nature self-destructive. Man's nature has not changed for over 3,000 years -- not since the discovery/invention of consciousness. For 2,500 years man has increasingly prospered. Slowly at first, but increasingly. With rapid increase over the past one-hundred-fifty years.
What has consistently changed at all times except for the Dark Ages is technology. It is because of the men and women who discover, invent and create new technologies that persons and society have increasingly prospered. And it is precisely that which politicians and bureaucrats aim to hinder and sometimes destroy. While proclaiming to protect people from certain harm due to man's supposedly self-defeating nature -- a false premise -- in reality is man's nature to create a better life for himself, his family and humanity that politicians and bureaucrats attack. The false premise is just an illusion -- not real. For in reality man's nature is to creatively and productively benefit himself and herself and others.
It is the essence of man that the politicians and bureaucrats attack and cause countless harm and suffering. For example, taxes in the United States: Tax Freedom Day is right around May 15. That's the date when a person is no longer working to pay taxes. In other words, a person works January 1, to May 15, just to pay his annual tax bill. That's four-and-a-half-months of time effort and energy mostly wasted on paying politicians and bureaucrats to create more new laws and regulations that attack man's greatness -- attack the essence/nature of man. So not only does a person waste almost half a year of time, effort and energy, the product of that waste is turned against him via new destructive laws and regulations.
A War of Two Worlds:
Value Producers
versus
Value Destroyers
"It is a war of rational honesties versus irrational dishonesties."
thats a great post im goingto put that on my about page in a few minutes