Government Can't Solve All Your Problems

Government is an instrumental part of every society -- but it is not the totality of every society, community and culture, or for that matter, the major part of individual experience. That is to say, we don't live for government, but government exists to help us live better -- and if it doesn't, needs to be adjusted to the greater purpose of living better lives, and not that lives must be diminished, for the purpose of making government more powerful.

All cultural institutions, including government, exist for that purpose, and are not what individual lives must be sacrificed for, or towards. Thus the present crisis, is that these government institutions have come to demand that all other aspects of society and individuality must not be sacrificed to the state.

We see that in a nationally famous persecution of a little girl wishing to operate a lemonade stand, and the public officials threatening to fine and otherwise intimidating her from doing so -- under the guise of protecting the public health, and their official and unofficial spokespersons rationalizing their unreasonable persecutions in saying that the public order must be maintained, and what we be the ensuing chaos if every kid wanted to run a lemonade stand without asking permission and obtaining the proper licenses to do so.

Do you see what an ugly, thoughtless bureaucratic society we've become, when people threatened by vermin and pest infestations from the abandonment of property next door, are fearful of protecting their own well-being because government claims they have been cut back and so they can do nothing -- but demand their $100,000 a year compensation to explain why they cannot do anything, or why what they do, is ineffective, but if we simply give them more, somehow that would be enough to hire more people to advocate for more money.

At times like this, one comes to the realization that government really does nothing, while demanding compensation at the highest levels possible. The story is the same throughout the communities throughout the country -- of self-serving government officials demanding and getting $400,000 salaries to oversee rural unpopulated communities while demanding compensation commensurate with mayors of the largest cities, universities and corporations, because they can and know how to "play the game."

That's basically what career government jobs are all about anymore -- self-aggrandizement, and not public service. They believe their own lies and propaganda of what great "sacrifices" they are making for everybody else -- as though they had any other talents or options. But they are convinced, that if they merely stick together, nobody can challenge the validity of what they all claim as their might to make it right -- while demanding that nobody else, has the right to assemble or organize in opposition to them.

That's no the road to tyranny; that is tyranny -- no matter how insistent one is in calling it a "Democracy." Sometimes, government is the problem -- and the right and duty of each citizen, is to recognize that.