As I get older I am moving quite quickly to the far right. I've read some of the arguments about government and its relationship with the people and I am dumbfounded how modern Americans can so willingly comply with government TSA searches. I've come to the conclusion that people would much rather be 'good citizens' and comply than be free citizens and not comply.
It seems to me that the TSA searches would not be tolerated if they were done by a private company. Could you imagine a bank security guard demanding that they feel your private areas before entering? No one would tolerate that from a private entity and the reason is is that on some level we understand that no person has any authority over us. We would not tolerate such behavior from a non-government entity yet the people in government seem to be immune from this. What makes them so special that they can do this without any our permission?
This was the question that many of the people asked during the age of reason and that was what made kings so special that they can do things that no one else could do? They could launch wars, torture, punish, and do just about anything and the people would comply willingly yet if another person did that they would not. I think we should ask ourselves a serious question and that is; are we reverting back to divine right of the king but in some more democratic form.
What else would explain the fact that modern Americans now seem to comply with violations of our person when we would not tolerate that from anyone else? In the same way kings could do God knows what we now allow the state to do the same.
It seems that in both eras there were two classes of people on this earth and one was the class that existed within the government and the one that existed outside of it. The one who live outside of it seem to live in a subjected state and the ones who live in it are free. They get to live in a natural state and get to deprive others of that same natural state that they enjoy. Its seems rather unfair in many ways but that is what the modern American has accepted.
It seems to me that the TSA searches would not be tolerated if they were done by a private company. Could you imagine a bank security guard demanding that they feel your private areas before entering? No one would tolerate that from a private entity and the reason is is that on some level we understand that no person has any authority over us. We would not tolerate such behavior from a non-government entity yet the people in government seem to be immune from this. What makes them so special that they can do this without any our permission?
This was the question that many of the people asked during the age of reason and that was what made kings so special that they can do things that no one else could do? They could launch wars, torture, punish, and do just about anything and the people would comply willingly yet if another person did that they would not. I think we should ask ourselves a serious question and that is; are we reverting back to divine right of the king but in some more democratic form.
What else would explain the fact that modern Americans now seem to comply with violations of our person when we would not tolerate that from anyone else? In the same way kings could do God knows what we now allow the state to do the same.
It seems that in both eras there were two classes of people on this earth and one was the class that existed within the government and the one that existed outside of it. The one who live outside of it seem to live in a subjected state and the ones who live in it are free. They get to live in a natural state and get to deprive others of that same natural state that they enjoy. Its seems rather unfair in many ways but that is what the modern American has accepted.
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