THE INEVITABLE TYRANNY

 

 

 

Dorothy A. Seese
December 18, 2005
NewsWithViews.com

The freedom man seeks is defeated by his own nature, and until that is understood (which, given so many millennia to understand it, seems unlikely) we shall have tyranny regardless of the desire to be free.

It appears from all that I have read over the years, about a third of the British colonials in America wanted freedom, another third were loyalists to the British crown and a third didn't give a damn either way as long as someone kept the peace and left them alone. That last third assumed they had a sufficient amount of freedom, or they would not have been so complacent, so indifferent to the great cause of their day. Men like Patrick Henry are idealists, few people are. Most are simply where they are and content to stay or discontent but not enough to make a war or even make waves.

In present day America, that last category (the ones not discontent enough to make waves or war) is an overwhelming majority, or they could not have fallen into the same trap as every other people who ever wanted freedom in this lifetime. All men are staunch believers in the sanctity of life when it comes to their own. The degree to which they accord other humans the same honor defines, loosely, their degree of civility and integrity, accountability to a higher Power, or their stark idealism amidst all evidence to the contrary. If "civilizations" are built merely of advanced technology, then we have had both successive and sequential civilizations, but none has been "civilized" in the sense that man could retain or practice what amounts to the Golden Rule.

Who, then, is the tyrant that keeps the people in subjection? It is the people. Where all persons are willing to do that which is right, good, proper, beneficial and charitable, there is no need for law. People would become a living law that would transmit from generation to generation. That doesn't happen. When people do that which is harmful, hateful or brutal, then law becomes necessary in order to punish evildoers and establish an example of the old "crime doesn't pay" axiom. Yet for the nearly innumerable laws that have ever been made for the purpose of containing man's penchant to do evil, evil persists. People do it. They rationalize and justify it to themselves if to no one else. Where there is law, there has to be government. Since human laws and means of enforcement require other human activities, what is begotten? Government. Then the very government that was initiated to enforce the laws against evil, itself turns evil, and there is both lawlessness and chaos born from injustice.

Those who have fought and died for the liberty of others have assumed that others will wish to use liberty in such a way as to perpetuate it, but history proves that to be an incorrect thesis. Is it any wonder, then, that in this age of comfort zones, people are less likely to wish to make the ultimate sacrifice for a cause that has proved futile in the past? Just as one election does not make a free people after the votes are counted, so one form of government does not guarantee any benefit to the people, nor do the people guarantee that they would be worthy of the best government if it were given to them gratis.

While some forms of government appear to be more conducive to providing comfort to the people, all government is essentially created because of the presence of evil. The perception that free elections will produce free people is not warranted by the evidence. The people can only vote for those who have been chosen to run, and that involves a political machine. Wherever politics exists, it conflicts with ethics and morality. The trio cannot walk together because they are not in agreement. Ethics and morality deny that the end justifies the means, while politics is built on that foundation. Yes it is! Competition demands a desire to win, and winning becomes the end for which any means is expedient. And rationalized.

In the end, people go from desiring to control their governors and limit their powers, to a subservience that begs the rulers to take control (tyranny) because by sheer numbers or ineptness or both, the people find they cannot survive among vast numbers of their own kind without defenses and entitlements, privileges and guarantees. Security, then, overtakes freedom as the goal of the society. That is why a form of socialism will always be generated out of a mass of people who began as a free society.

What is the operative principle here? That man needs governance and that governance will control at the request, even the demand, of the people. We might call that the Prevailing Evil. The answer, of course, is to transform human nature, the very thing that government cannot do.

Those who desire personal freedom cringe at the growth of tyranny, an infringement on the basic desire of man to be free. It is because man cannot agree on what constitutes "freedom" when people multiply in numbers that tyranny becomes the master, pushing aside the inner desire in favor of the outer semblance of order for the political unit.

When the political unit is the entire world, then Global Governance becomes the instrument of control, of legal administration, and of tyranny.

That is why the American ideal is so hollow now, amidst a world at war with itself over ideologies and involved in every manner of evil. That which is suited to people of honor and integrity, is not compatible with controlling the masses and the evils that they perpetrate, or the governments that represent them with or without consent.

Considering the nature of man and his governments throughout the ages, it is no problem at all to see why the current mindsets of government and social entities are so hostile toward the Ten Commandments. Every correction to past and present (and future) human conduct that creates social evils, every violation of spiritual law committed and rationalized by man and his rulers, is enumerated in the Ten Commandments. The Decalogue indicts rulers and subjects, pierces their veneers and exposes the evils within.

The problem is internal to man, so is the solution, and none seem to wish to see it engraved in stone on the public square. Then, traversing time and matter to move from physical/moral laws to spiritual laws, the Ten Commandments begin with the Creator against whom all rebellion is ultimately aimed.

That is why there is an inevitability about tyranny that will persist until the cause is removed. Some long to see that day, others disbelieve it entirely, and still others simply refuse to think about it. Perceptions, however, do not make facts. The creation of man was not an inside job, but the sanctification of man is strictly a matter of aligning the heart with spiritual law.

Until such an alignment is full and complete, tyranny is inevitable.

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