Hi all 
I have noticed a strong anti-government sentiment throughout many people I know in real life, and here on the Nexus. It's as if everybody has come to understand The Government as some evil people who are only out to take your money to use to restrict your freedoms and oppress you.
That's a sad thing to see.
Please bear with me, but I understand the government as the result of the following logical chain of thought:
As people are a flock animal (survival is hard when done "alone" and "independently" ) we have a natural tendency to live together in societies, close to each other. This enables specialization, as in every person is good at something different. Some people are good at chemistry, others at engineering, other people are good at fishing. The engineer is hopeless to survive without the fisherman and vice-versa. They both contribute to each other by making each other lives happier through contribution.
A good society increases in size, because the people living together have been successful at helping each other to have more healthy children. Outsiders also join the society because it is successful and promises a chance at a better / happier life, thus making it bigger.
As the size of society increases, the amount of possible specializations increase, as does the complexity of what each person specializes in. With this, the complexity of the interactions between people increases and the possibility of miscommunication and misunderstanding also increases.
The ability of the collective society also increases - so they all agree that they should do something together to make all of their lives better and more enjoyable. For example, they decide that they should have a communal party building.
But who should pay for it? Should the expense lay on the shoulders of the builders? Or should it be the community as a whole who should pitch in?
Here, I think, is where a Government should be born and where it is a good thing. I know our current governments around the world are full of flaws, but how can we expect humans to be perfect all the time? Life is an experiment, and government is an experiment.
I am 100% pro-government even with it's current flaws, because if all people in the world, together decide a minimal living standard for everyone, nobody will be left behind hungry or needing anything. We need to improve our systems until they are good, and then continue improving them so they get better. So it is with science, so it should be with our government of ourselves.
Just as I once realized that there is not a "God vs. Us" but only "We are a part of what is God", so I believe there is no "Government vs Us" but "We are a part of what is Government". We are all responsible for how everything is happening because whether we want it or not, we are a part of what is happening.
Democracy has tried to implement the collective self-government for the betterment of all but has so far failed, because the people we elect are not good decision-makers but good at-getting-elected. In our naivety, we have come to select the wrong specialization for the right job.
Does anybody follow with my chain of thoughts? Do you disagree? Please enlighten me with how I can be wrong.
I have noticed a strong anti-government sentiment throughout many people I know in real life, and here on the Nexus. It's as if everybody has come to understand The Government as some evil people who are only out to take your money to use to restrict your freedoms and oppress you.
That's a sad thing to see.
Please bear with me, but I understand the government as the result of the following logical chain of thought:
As people are a flock animal (survival is hard when done "alone" and "independently" ) we have a natural tendency to live together in societies, close to each other. This enables specialization, as in every person is good at something different. Some people are good at chemistry, others at engineering, other people are good at fishing. The engineer is hopeless to survive without the fisherman and vice-versa. They both contribute to each other by making each other lives happier through contribution.
A good society increases in size, because the people living together have been successful at helping each other to have more healthy children. Outsiders also join the society because it is successful and promises a chance at a better / happier life, thus making it bigger.
As the size of society increases, the amount of possible specializations increase, as does the complexity of what each person specializes in. With this, the complexity of the interactions between people increases and the possibility of miscommunication and misunderstanding also increases.
The ability of the collective society also increases - so they all agree that they should do something together to make all of their lives better and more enjoyable. For example, they decide that they should have a communal party building.
But who should pay for it? Should the expense lay on the shoulders of the builders? Or should it be the community as a whole who should pitch in?
Here, I think, is where a Government should be born and where it is a good thing. I know our current governments around the world are full of flaws, but how can we expect humans to be perfect all the time? Life is an experiment, and government is an experiment.
I am 100% pro-government even with it's current flaws, because if all people in the world, together decide a minimal living standard for everyone, nobody will be left behind hungry or needing anything. We need to improve our systems until they are good, and then continue improving them so they get better. So it is with science, so it should be with our government of ourselves.
Just as I once realized that there is not a "God vs. Us" but only "We are a part of what is God", so I believe there is no "Government vs Us" but "We are a part of what is Government". We are all responsible for how everything is happening because whether we want it or not, we are a part of what is happening.
Democracy has tried to implement the collective self-government for the betterment of all but has so far failed, because the people we elect are not good decision-makers but good at-getting-elected. In our naivety, we have come to select the wrong specialization for the right job.
Does anybody follow with my chain of thoughts? Do you disagree? Please enlighten me with how I can be wrong.
