Acolyte Of Death
25th September 2003, 03:11
OUR NEW TREATISE
THE FOUNDATIONS AND IDEALS
OF
THE EUTOCRACY
Written by Anh-vu Doan, 24.9.2003
I. IDEAL AND THE GOOD GOVERNMENT
All governments must rule at the consent of the governed. The reason for this is self-evident - when the people are happy with their government, they will be content to let it rule. When does this occur? The idea is simple - and the pattern has been repeated ever since the dawn of human civilisation - all governments must provide security, stability, and must answer the current needs of the people.
Now when it is clear that the government does not perform this function with efficiency the people will not be content with the government, and pressure will increase for the government to change. If the government refuses to change, or is not in a position to change, it is not only in the right of the people to alter or abolish it, it is an inalienable and inevitable fact that that government will be changed by the people, just as inevitable as the fact that an object which is thrown into the air will fall back down to the earth. This is the sole reason as to why governments have fallen in the past, and why governments shall continue to do so as long as human society in fact, needs a government. Governments, in essence, exist solely at the mercy of those governed.
In this sense, the good government must be the government that is able to change, to respond to stimuli (this being, to respond to the needs and will of the people who comprise it and sustain it), and to ensure not only the well-being of its citizens, but also the well being of its future citizens as well - in essence - to pave the way for an even better government to take its place when the time is right.
Now this is not, in essence, the ideal government, as many people have many views on what is good and what is not, and how to go about achieving the conditions aforementioned. An ideal government would, essentially, have several core ideals clearly established at its core, whose very existence is immutable and inalienable to the spirit of Humanity, these are: the idea of human liberty, the idea of the human capacity to reason, and the idea of human equality. These three ideals form the firm basis of everything and every deduction that is resolved out of these three ideals that have been at the heart of every argument for egalitarianism to this day.
How do we define these three basic assumptions? From where comes the idea of human equality, liberty, and reasoning? Just what is equality and what does it mean?
The human being is an animal, albeit a very unique animal. Each human being is born with a certain measure of inherent intelligence, instincts, and inherent needs which must be fulfilled as a requirement of life. Is it, then, wrong for human beings to be considered, as a matter of being born human, to be entitled to certain basic rights? Absolutely not! Human beings, out of need to survive and want for a good and happy life, will act to assert these rights if they lack them, and will act to preserve these rights if they are granted. Is it not correct, then, to grant them these rights, if every intelligent, rational human being has the intellectual capacity to want and then assert such rights? Yes!
But to what extent should humans get these rights? It is all right and good to proclaim that all humans are created equal, and being human, entitled to certain inalienable rights, etc., but what does this matter if human beings, born equal (in that equal means equally human), are in no position to assert these rights? Will it not then, behoove these powerless humans to want for just as good a life as their fellow humans? If this is so, then it should be wrong to create a situation such that humans, in fact, can be born into a lesser position than another. What this means, in a nutshell, is that the concept of equality should not only be applied to politics, but to economics and society as a whole.
Anything to the contrary is, if we accept the aforementioned conditions, a denial of what it means to be human.
The ideal government, then, is the government which embraces only the three basic assumptions - that humanity must be free, capable of asserting itself, and equal. In turn, this ideal form of government must, as a matter of consequence, embrace the ideal of universal equality.
This is the foundation of the eutocracy ( eu- meaning 'true' or 'ideal', and -cratos meaning 'rule', hence ideal rule).
THE FOUNDATIONS AND IDEALS
OF
THE EUTOCRACY
Written by Anh-vu Doan, 24.9.2003
I. IDEAL AND THE GOOD GOVERNMENT
All governments must rule at the consent of the governed. The reason for this is self-evident - when the people are happy with their government, they will be content to let it rule. When does this occur? The idea is simple - and the pattern has been repeated ever since the dawn of human civilisation - all governments must provide security, stability, and must answer the current needs of the people.
Now when it is clear that the government does not perform this function with efficiency the people will not be content with the government, and pressure will increase for the government to change. If the government refuses to change, or is not in a position to change, it is not only in the right of the people to alter or abolish it, it is an inalienable and inevitable fact that that government will be changed by the people, just as inevitable as the fact that an object which is thrown into the air will fall back down to the earth. This is the sole reason as to why governments have fallen in the past, and why governments shall continue to do so as long as human society in fact, needs a government. Governments, in essence, exist solely at the mercy of those governed.
In this sense, the good government must be the government that is able to change, to respond to stimuli (this being, to respond to the needs and will of the people who comprise it and sustain it), and to ensure not only the well-being of its citizens, but also the well being of its future citizens as well - in essence - to pave the way for an even better government to take its place when the time is right.
Now this is not, in essence, the ideal government, as many people have many views on what is good and what is not, and how to go about achieving the conditions aforementioned. An ideal government would, essentially, have several core ideals clearly established at its core, whose very existence is immutable and inalienable to the spirit of Humanity, these are: the idea of human liberty, the idea of the human capacity to reason, and the idea of human equality. These three ideals form the firm basis of everything and every deduction that is resolved out of these three ideals that have been at the heart of every argument for egalitarianism to this day.
How do we define these three basic assumptions? From where comes the idea of human equality, liberty, and reasoning? Just what is equality and what does it mean?
The human being is an animal, albeit a very unique animal. Each human being is born with a certain measure of inherent intelligence, instincts, and inherent needs which must be fulfilled as a requirement of life. Is it, then, wrong for human beings to be considered, as a matter of being born human, to be entitled to certain basic rights? Absolutely not! Human beings, out of need to survive and want for a good and happy life, will act to assert these rights if they lack them, and will act to preserve these rights if they are granted. Is it not correct, then, to grant them these rights, if every intelligent, rational human being has the intellectual capacity to want and then assert such rights? Yes!
But to what extent should humans get these rights? It is all right and good to proclaim that all humans are created equal, and being human, entitled to certain inalienable rights, etc., but what does this matter if human beings, born equal (in that equal means equally human), are in no position to assert these rights? Will it not then, behoove these powerless humans to want for just as good a life as their fellow humans? If this is so, then it should be wrong to create a situation such that humans, in fact, can be born into a lesser position than another. What this means, in a nutshell, is that the concept of equality should not only be applied to politics, but to economics and society as a whole.
Anything to the contrary is, if we accept the aforementioned conditions, a denial of what it means to be human.
The ideal government, then, is the government which embraces only the three basic assumptions - that humanity must be free, capable of asserting itself, and equal. In turn, this ideal form of government must, as a matter of consequence, embrace the ideal of universal equality.
This is the foundation of the eutocracy ( eu- meaning 'true' or 'ideal', and -cratos meaning 'rule', hence ideal rule).