The Natural Right of Government

Government, meaning “mind control,” govern coming from the Latin gubernare meaning “to steer” as in a ship, and mentis meaning “of the mind”-- together, “steering of the mind” or perhaps “mind steering”-- is that group of people who control the apparatus of the state. The state, meaning “static” or non-dynamic, is that institution in society that maintains a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence within a given ethnic, multi-ethnic, or national territory, keeping the society from changing. So then, government is that group of people who control the mind or use mind control through that institution that maintains a legitimate use of violence within a given territory to keep a society from evolving. As a monopolist on the legitimate use of force, government is inherently a monopolist also of the illegitimate use of force, because in order to maintain a monopoly on legitimate use of violence one must be willing to use illegitimate violence against others who would use legitimate violence.

Government has a natural right to rule, but it is not a good and proper right. It is the right to do bad, which Stoics and Christians may attribute to the freedom of the will, the freedom to sin or do vicious things (but which psycho-physical parallelists like Spinoza understood to still be pre-destined) that result in Hell. The right of governments to rule is the right to do evil, which is a natural right to engage entropy upon one’s fellows knowing it is bad for them (unwanted), though one which diminishes as society approaches the Source, that which is the Greatest Good, itself a syntropic process of Return. This natural right, arising from the sempiternal presence of entropy, is consistent with the actual power that a government holds, the right of ruling being the fact of domination and the slowing of evolution. But as domination is repulsive to society, society diminishes government as it diminishes domination. As such, the natural right of government to rule is not an absolute or perpetual right, as society avoids and thereby annihilates the rule of government, which is consistent with its domination.

The right of governments to do evil is not consistent with an entirely entropic process, nor is it consistent with the idea that there may be an absolute evil. Just as there is not an absolute nothing, there is no absolute evil, an existent which entirely lacks goodness. Governments, and the ruling classes they serve-- priests, landlords, bankers, and bosses--, are driven by the same natural will of self-preservation as is any other creature, and from this ultimately good foundation springs forth their short-sighted will to dominate others. It is the short-sightedness, and not the will for self-preservation itself, that must be identified as the evil element, and, as such, this evil rests upon a foundation of goodness, which is itself derived from the Source, however profane and depraved its vessel has become in its forgetfulness. The entropy it causes others is for the preservation of its own being, which results from syntropy, its goodness. There is no absolute evil, nor entirely entropic states of being, no matter how evil or entropic.

Government, as with any organism or association, however criminal, has the natural right to maintain its interests and those of its constituents in the ruling class to the extent that it can maintain its being against the interests of those with whom it finds itself opposed. However, this does not make it free from natural consequence, the natural corollary to natural rights being natural responsibilities or natural duties. One has a natural right to cut an apple, but has the natural responsibility to ensure that, in doing so, one does not cut one’s finger. Nobody has a natural right to evade natural consequence (though a subsidy may provide an artificial right to do so, itself stemming from an actually-existing natural right). The natural consequence of government...

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