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Why Government is Infallible: The Narcissism of the State

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There is no such thing as a governmental solution to the “problems” of government. This is because government, according to the philosophical premises which underwrite it, cannot possibly have any actual problems in the first place.

The State is Authority, and Authority is Force. And the underwriting philosophy tells us that this force is how and why humanity is able to exist at all. It is the cure for humanity’s natural existential inadequacy—man’s “sin nature”, if you will. Man is the problem, government is the solution. Man, if allowed to exercise his unfettered and ungoverned individual will, must inexorably, by nature, devour his neighbor and eventually destroy himself due to his endemic and insatiable appetite for selfishness. Unless his behavior is fundamentally dictated by a supremely violent coercive Authority comprised of a small number of divinely enlightened and appointed philosopher kings, humanity shall be banished from reality, itself, never to be again.

Since the clairvoyance of those charged with saving humanity from itself cannot possibly be apprehended by the barbarian masses, nor can it ever truly be understood by those who are called to rule—because it transcends man’s utterly finite intellectual and rational capacity and therefore extends immeasurably beyond the inadequate confines of human language—there are no problems with the State as far as any human being is concerned. For even if the State somehow actually had a problem, not a one of us, neither the ruler or the ruled, could ultimately understand or articulate it. The terms by which the government is established emanate from a Supreme Being—God, or some other Ideal (The People; We the People; The Worker’s Utopia; Racial or Social Justice; The Master Race, etc.)—who calls rulers and enlightens them in spite of their natural human existential insufficiency. What the ruler knows, he just knows…somehow. What government is exactly at root and how it got there is not for him to say, and he couldn’t say it anyway because this knowledge, though residing in him is infinitely distinct from him qua him. The ruler, you see, occupies a strange and pradoxical existential position, as he is both God and man. He is perfect, because he is the State, and yet he is not perfect because the State exists in spite of him. But this contradiction never actually matters because as he is called to rule by God, and his position of Authority is absolute, he can never consider himself in error about anything. He may be determined to be in error by those who for some reason have more power than himself, but in that context he is merely another barbarian like you or me; if he is disciplined for error by those who have power over him punishment will be forced upon him like it is forced upon the rest of us. And if a ruler does somehow humble himself and admit some kind of mistake, he can never concede that he failed as a function of his judgement as a ruler, only as a function of his judgement as a human.

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As the perfect knowledge and power given to those called to rule, and which serves as the philosophical underpinnings for this rule, is a direct function of the Supreme Being which is thus and therefore perfect, the State can never, ever possibly be in error about anything at all. In other words, the State is a direct function of God, however we wish to define Him or It, therefore the State can never be the problem…whatever problem happens to be in question. The problem must always be people. Humanity, apart from the perfect, transcendent, and all powerful Creator—because humanity is “fallen” and infinitely wicked and existentially in error—is the only reason anything ever goes wrong, anywhere, all the time. Period. Full stop.

Government, being an extension of God necessitated by the infinite evil of man’s life, is always right; inerrant; infallible. It can do no wrong; it is perfection qua perfection. And even if it wasn’t, neither you nor I could ever be in a position to tell the difference. We are the barbarian masses…the ignorant unwashed. Government supersedes us in existence, and transcends us in wisdom and goodness, which is why it is in the position of Lawgiver and Enforcer. It alone has been tasked to exist as the earthly incarnation of the Supreme Being (however that is defined). It alone has the right to determine what Ethics shall be established (outside of man) and to use legalized violence to compel the rest of humanity (within its geopolitical sphere of influence, which it is always seeking to expand) into “correct” thought and behavior.

In short, government is the perfect iteration of narcissism. It is narcissism institutionalized—narcisssim established as the bedrock of civilization. If you have ever asked yourself why our culture is becoming more and more narcissistic, with a sort of pathological devotion to imperious, irrational self-indulgence on a mass scale, even arrantly and proudly hedonistic, it is because the culture reflects the mannerisms, principles, and virtues of the State, not the other way around.

Government can never and will never fundamentally accept responsibility for any failure, or admit that it is even possible for it to commit fault or error, because its root existential purpose—to remediate humanity’s “original sin”—makes doing so a completely self-nullifying proposition. Government can no more represent a fundamental failure to any endeavor than a square can also be a circle, or a baby can also be a man. It simply has no frame of reference for its own failure (though occasionally to assuage or manipulate the “barbarian masses”  it might pay some mildly-convincing lip-service to its “mistakes”), because it exists for the sole purpose of atoning for the absolute existential inadequacy of man. In other words, in the same way that man, according to the collectivist metaphysics which underwrite all governemnts, is perfectly inadequate to his own existence—metaphysically, epistemologically, and ethically —government is the perfect solution. The Divine solution. As much as man is perfectly inadequate, government is perfectly adequate to satisfy the natural failure of man. It is the perfect solution to the to the root metaphysical problems of man because it is the only solution. It is the only option man has for the survival of the species, both in body and in spirit. Government is the Authority which must force man into proper and moral and efficacious existence, and so it cannot make a mistake because a mistake necessarily represents a contradiction to its very natural essence. In other words, because government is the only possible fundamental solution to the fundamental problems of the world caused fundamentally by the failure of man’s birth to prepare him for existence, any error the government might theoretically make could only be remediated by government anyway.

Man is the problem, government is the solution. And those two states of being are absolute and immutable. This is 99% of what you need to know.

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Government is the fundamental solution to all the errors in the world because all errors in the world are a fundamental product of man’s existence, which is a failure in and of itself.  To be more specific, the natural failure of man is precisely his individual sense of his absolute Self, which categorically infects his mind, choices, and behavior. Man is naturally given to calling himself “I”, but the collectivist metaphysics of the State demand that the only way he can survive is if he is subordinated to the metaphysical primary of “we”—“We the People”; “We the Nation”; “We the Church”, “We the Race”; “We the Chosen”; “We the Oppressed”; “We the Non-White”; “We the Workers”. And ths is precisely what government does. It transfers ethics from morality, which is fundamentally individualistic, to legality, which is fundamentally collectivistic, and the uses legally sanctioned violence to force the individual to submit to the Collective Ideal which it represents as the Ideal’s functional and practical incarnation on earth. The individual shall not consider Government as distinct from God, you could say, because there is simply no way to metaphysically make any such distinction in the first place.

In summary, we should remember that like the narcissist, any mistakes the government makes are always and entirely the fault of others…of you and of me. Which is simply another way of saying that government doesn’t make mistakes. And this is why, in spite of all the reasoned arguments and objective evidence as to its catastrophical incompetence, government inexorably grows massive, assumes ever-increasing power, becomes more reckless, less tolerant of criiticism, more resistant to real change, more violent, more corrupt, more blind, more deaf, less sympathetic, heartless, incompetent,  bloodthirsty, and beastly.

And yet, it concordantly becomes that much more adored.

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Collectivizing Virtue: The neo-Marxist scourge of political relativism

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To qualify virtue is to collectivize it. Thus, it becomes not a virtue, but a prison for the individual; an evil; a tyranny; a siren song for the immutable socialist desire for the abject destruction of the Self. Qualified virtue is only virtuous when it conforms to collectivist identity politics. It has no meaning, in other words, beyond the imperious authority of those who determine the plenary worth of human beings according to group identity, which is about as callow and subjective a marker as can be devised. But no one has or will ever accuse the socialists of being ethically or politically imaginative: “White man, bad. Brown man, good.”—which has a “Me, Tarzan. You, Jane,” sort of ring to it—is pretty much the extent of things. And this is intentional. The more remedial your ethics and your politics, the easier it is to get people to murder for them.

An example of qualifying virtue is the Western neo-Marxist political trope of “social justice”. You see, to claim distinct versions of a broad, and I would argue, a priori, virtue like Justice is of course to divide it…to make it mutually exclusive of itself. There is no such thing as justice qua justice. It ceases to be foundational to human existence, itself, but merely a cursory function of polictics. For example, in today’s neo-Marxist politics of the left, justice isn’t really justice until after its been qualified according to one’s collective identity based primarily on race. Justice is a function of politics, you see, not the other way around. Justice is soley determined by those who claim the authority to decide who is virtuous and who is not according to skin color (and to a marginally lesser extent, their sexual orientation and their religion; their IQ, gender identity, and even in some cases their weight—“fat shaming” being a modern, neo-Marxist imprecation leveled against anyone who dares assert that being overweight is in general neither healthy nor attractive…which, it isn’t).

It is completely mendacious—entirely politically self-serving—to claim that there is a meaningful distinction between justice for the individual and social (collectivized) justice. Justice is an ethical premise, and thus is rooted in the individual, not in categories of individuals, In other words, it begins and ends with the individual—with the Self—and applies thus to groups only insofar as they are groups of individuals. To collectivize justice then is to cut out the individual entirely from its scope and influence and turn it into a political weapon. Trust me, when any white, cisgendered man who doesn’t have some kind of “in” with the politcal left (as a hedge against the “original sin” of his being born white and straight) hears the words “social justice” he knows he’s in trouble. He knows that it means the opposite of justice for him. It means that justice is nothing more than a scapegoating of his race and sexuality and a call for his destruction. This makes justice, as far as it can apply to him, an existential threat and totally evil. He knows that a justice which declares him existentially unjust because he happens to have been born white and straight is an entirely subjective version of the virtue and cannot possibly, under any circumstance, be actually just. “Justice” in the contextual, collectivized, and socialist sense is nothing more than another terrible and terrorizing political irony, like “equality” or “compassion” or “gun control”.  But don’t let yourself be fooled. This impostor of justice known as “social justice” serves no one, regardless of whatever arbitrary collective identity one happens to possess. It is merely another iteration of political propaganda meant to lure humanity into the clutches of an authoritarian ruling class. No one is safe. You can tell yourself all you want that the white man is finally getting his comeuppance, but it is a very tight race between all of us. The margin is razor thin. One single documented commission of wrongthink by the black man and soon he will find himself not so black after all. In other words, anyone who dares stray from the path set for them by their neo-Marxist overlords is white.

And thus we have the dirty little secret: it isn’t white people the neo-Marxists hate, its individuals. You, no matter what your color, orientation, or creed, are a threat to the ruling class on the left (and to some extent even the right…for they are both collectivists at their philosophical root). Because you think as a single, self-aware agent—as a natural, existential “I” and not a “we’—you must be utterly subordinated to the socialists who shall govern you.

Summary and conclusion:

Contextual justice, like “social justice”, is like contextual morality—a fundamental contradiction in terms. “Contextual justice” obligates the foundational ethical premise of Justice to a subjective standard outside itself. This contradicts justice because it means that Justice is no longer the reference for what is truly just. The reference for justice becomes the capricious political category of “group identity”, which strips individuality and thus individual will and action from the virtue of Justice entirely, and makes how one is or is not declared just merely a function of whatever group into which the politcal ruling authority has placed him. Justice then no longer serves the individual but the ruling class—who in turn serve only themselves by appealing to some absolute, yet abstract, transcendent, and ethereal Collective Ideal of which they represent the earthly incarnation. The ruling authority decides who has existential value and requisitely metes out “justice” simply on the basis of what color someone happens to be, or how much money they make, or what sexual partners they prefer, or what religion they are, and so on.

To qualify virtue, like “Justice”, is to pit it against itself, and this necessarily enslaves man, the individual, to the subjective, contextual, collectivist reference by which virtue is now to be measured. Man no longer has a natural birthright to justice but instead finds himself enslaved to some fickle collectivist brand of it.

For the neo-Marxists on the left, the key it seems to delivering justice is to implicitly deny that real Justice actually exists at all.

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A Fulcrum is Not for Balance but Imbalance: Why government implies destabilization

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The seesaw…a common playground fixture; we’ve all been on one in our youth. It’s a long, often wooden, plank, with a handle on either end, resting on a fulcrum a couple of feet off the ground. Two children sit opposite each other on either end, ideally being of comparable weight, and they proceed to rock the plank up and down on the fulcrum. And this is the entire point of the thing. The fact that either end of the plank does not remain stationary is the purpose of the seesaw. The plank, you see, is not suppposed to be balanced…hence the fulcrum at the center. If the intention was to balance the plank, the fulcrum would be removed and the plank secured to a fixed point. But you cannot do this and still have a seesaw. That is, you cannot balance a plank when the very asserted and accepted fundamental nature and purpose of it is to be imbalanced.

And this contradiction—a fulcrum which is irrationally and contrarily repurposed as a balance mechanism—is a good metaphor for government. Government’s ostensible intended purpose—to bring balance to conflicting groups—is contrary to its use and observable efficacy, and this article will examine why.

The government is a fulcrum which must pivot, but is somehow—for some not too terribly rational reason which is predicated upon some not too terribly rational metaphysics—intended to bring balance (and I speak primarily of Western democracies, like the United States) to either ends of a “plank” (humanity) which is described as being in perpetual conflict (imbalance) with itself according to its nature. The point of the State then, it seems, is to balance that which cannot actually be balanced. By bringing the plank of humanity then to the fulcrum of government, we in fact focus and accentuate the conflicts endemic to humanity as a general function of humanity’s very existence, with disasterous consequences.

The overt and objective incompetency of the government to its purpose—balance—is a clear verification of this. Government fails at balance because of the metaphysics which underwrite its very existence. Man cannot be made passive, moral, or equable, because of the root insufficient nature of his existence, experienced wholly through his own singular consciousness, to apprehend reality. Man possesses an inexorable sense of individual Self which is in endless conflict with the “truth” of a collectivist reality…be this reality defined according to scientific determinism, divine/religious determinism, agnostic nihilism, or simply the depressing endless smorgasbord of politcal-economic theories which incorporate the State.

This contradiction—government which must by its own admitted purpose and presence act as a fulcrum, thus accentuating and focusing the rank vagaries of inexorable capricious and irrational human nature, but is intended as a fixed point of balance—yes, this contradiction, and the constistent stubborn attempts of man to appeal to contradiction as a means of organizing reality, is why the government fails again and again. Healthcare, welfare, education, social integrity and harnmony, equanimity, liberty, international tranquility, justice, transparency…all of the foibles of man it is intended to set right and steady it can only fuck up to the point of mass destruction. It hones and focuses the conflicts—the imbalances—of mankind by implicitly affirming them as ipso facto and then elevating them to the level of supreme ruling Authority, weilding supreme destructive violence as its method of practical implementation. You look at lady (centralized) justice and you see the blindfold and your hopes are dashed as you realized that the fact that she is blinded isn’t because she is fair but because it doesn’t matter. Her “justice” will only affirm the root and infinite injustice of man’s nature. She is blind to what he IS because the death of man—his absence from reality—is the only possible outcome of government in the end. The only way government “balances” the chaos of human existence is by elevating the chaos to the point where the species implodes in on itself and takes governemnt with it. There is great “balance” in the neverending blackness of humanity’s absence, and by extension, the absence of government. The State is the square peg to mankind’s round hole, and the government can only stubbornly force them together, persistently so, until both are ground into dust.

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For the past…well, several millennium, humanity has decided (for reasons we shall not address here) that the State—the formal installation of a supremely violent coercive Authority—is the ideal way of bringing balance and equanimity to all manner of broadscale human conflict; and this conflict due to an inexorable, fixed, and unchangeable human insufficiency to its own existence (its degeneracy into self-annihilation absent someone or something forcing it into “right” thinking and behavior). And yet, for millennium after millennium humanity has remained blind to the slagheaps of contradiction which plague this philosophy like boils. The infinitely irreconcilable difference that men have with one another, which means the inevitable destruction of the race on the whole, are nevertheless sought to be mitigated by an Absolute Authority on High. God is not a reliable Authority because his practical manifestation on earth in realtime is too sporadic, of course, and so men establish the State to serve as God’s proxy—his incarnate Authority on earth, if you will. And we need not necessarily define God according to specifically religious terms, because what he is, really, is simply an Ideal, you see. A collective Ideal to which all men must be categorically submitted and subordinated. They cannot do it themselves, collectivist metaphysics tells us,  because of their infinitely individual perspective (their singular consciousness and volition). Thus men are forced by the violence of the State to accept the dictates of the Ideal, whether it’s “God” or the “gods”, or the “People”, or the “Workers”, or the “Race”, or the “Nation”, or “Diversity”, or whatever…it doesn’t really matter. The Collective Ideal is simply a superficial abstract placeholder for the practical Authority of the ruling class—that is, the Government.

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The intention of the government (particularly in Western democracies) is to serve as a fixed point upon which to bring balance and stability to the inexorable social conflicts endemic to humanity according to humanity’s metaphysical identity (and this according to collectivist philosophy); but because of the inexorability of these conflicts due to the fact that they are a product of man’s absolute nature, the government in practicality becomes not a fixed point, but a fulcrum upon which to focus and acutely assert the imbalances of human existence. This magnifies and  raises the destructive consequences of the conflict by giving competing groups a position of supreme violent coercive power (the State) over which to fight and to use as a giant hammer to smash opposition. By manifesting as a fulcrum instead of the intended anchor, the government actually concedes the inexorability, inevitability, and necessity of man’s self-destructive and nihilistic nature, and wholly surrenders to the reality of it, and thus brings about the very destruction of mankind it is intended to subvert.

The rational foible of the philosophy of government is rather shocking, truth be told.

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The governemnt becomes the hub of human conflict…an intersection where competing groups will meet and are made to to adhere to rules which dictate which side shall yield the right of way and how often and to what degree. Thus, we can already see the failure of the notion of “government-as-balance” or “government-as-anchor”. The basic practical application of the State is not to eradicate the differences between competing groups—for if that were possible according to the prevailing (collectivist) metaphysics then government would be unnecessary in the first place. On the contrary, government is declared indispensable to human kind precisely because humanity is said to be so invariably and utterly contentious according to its most fundamental essence. There is no humanity absent conflict, that is. The two are metaphysically corollary. If men were capable in and of themselves (that is, absent coercive Authority) of reconciling differences and ending conflicts, let alone eradicating them altogether, then there would be no point to installing a supreme coercive Authority to force men to get along—which of course their nature prevents them from doing anyway. (That  man’s nature categorically precludes any lasting conflict resolution is a collectivist assumption which one cannot be reminded of enough.)

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The government is intended to reconcile differences between competing groups by acting somehow as an instrument of compromise where all groups can be heard and represented and differences resolved without having to resort to and experience the mass violence and death which must otherwise inevitably accompany such differences. Yet herein are made two critical  errors of logic which undermine the whole endeavor and validate the common proverb that “the road to hell is paved with good intentions”.

First, we underwrite government with the metaphysics that declare man incapable of compromise and conflict resolution according to his most basic and primary nature, thus destining government to fail in its stated objective even before it begins. We can use all manner of authoritative force we want, and we do, yet man can never change his nature any more than a fish can change into a battleship. The force we bring to bear upon man can only lead inexorably to his destruction at the hands of the State, as the eradication, or the absence, of man is the only real solution to the metaphysical problem his existence presents. All governments imply a “final solution” you might say, then, and this solution is carried out to various degrees depending on the stage of evolution a given State happens to find itself in.

Second, we believe that somehow an institution of supreme Authority can have a real interest in compromise and balance; or have any real interest at all beyond that of its own Authority…Authority being, in fact, merely the practical incarnation of a monolithic collectivist Ideal (the People, the Workers, the Nation, the Tribe, the Race…etc.). The State is not an instrument of compromise, but of force. For that is what Authority is. Authority is force, and compromise is the very antithesis of force.

The governent is not a solution to human conflict, it is conflict institutionalized. It is a place where competing groups go to seize power and then use that power to crush their adversaries with the most violently efficacious means man can possibly devise. The State is not an andedote to the chaos of human nature, it is a concession of it, and the implicit acceptance of the idea that man, because his mind and will and his reason are fundamentally at odds with reality, must be annihilated in order for peace to be possible.

Not that there will be anyone around to see it and define it as such.

The nature of government is rank, crass, and uncompromising coercive force which will bring about the destruction of man according to his predestined existential failure due to his insufficient nature. Period. Man is the plank with opposing ends; government is the fulcrum upon which the opposition and imbalance is accentuated. Man’s insufficient nature and the State work together to manifest perfectly the failure of man to his own existence according to the prevailing collectivist metaphysics.

The government is the fulcrum, and remember this well: If the board ever stopped pivoting there would be no use then for governent. And thus for those of you who demand that the State bring balance to the people? Well, the government wouldn’t do it even if it could.

That’s it’s nature.

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