`` As if - the explanation of Emergence

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Politics


Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable - the art of the next best - Otto von Bismarck


Index


  1. Politics Matters

  2. Money

  3. Monarchy

  4. Patriarchy

  5. Conservatism

  6. Liberalism

  7. Socialism

  8. Marxism

  9. Communism

  10. Anarchy

  11. Polyarchy

  12. The Future

Politics Matters


Politics is the tool by which we, as a society, establish the methods by which our individuality sits within that society. That is, how we write our laws, and how we administer them. Just as with the relationship types that underpin Virtualism, there is only one fundamental rule for politics - you can treat people as the same as you, or you can treat people as different. However, the thing about the laws established by politics is that they, being laws, apply to everyone, and that means that if they allow unfairness, that unfairness can be what you end up with.


Politics is not Left and Right, not in reality. What it is, is vertical and horizontal.


The Left, broadly Socialism, is horizontal and based on equality. The Right, broadly conservative, but also authoritarian, is vertical and based on hierarchy. Only the Right requires a top and a bottom.


One analogy is the flock of chickens, where there is hierarchy, and the poor sod at the bottom gets picked on, and their feathers pecked out, or a herd of cattle, where each is more or less equal.


The morality of political systems derives ultimately from the fact of demergence - that destruction is the greatest harm - and from the truth that the only avoidance of destruction is through fairness - the balancing of harms.


Political systems [and their laws] that tolerate difference, may facilitate the unfair treatment of individuals. But systems that allow no difference may squash individuality. We assume that fairness is desireable, because we don't like being treated unfairly. We also assume that individuality is desireable, because we appreciate the spice of life that comes from variety.


Therefore, it must be the case that any worthwhile political system takes account of difference, and in doing so ensures that individuals are both protected from the harms that may come from other individuals, and have the opportunity to flourish as an individual themselves. This necessitates that the law be applied to all, equally, and it necessitates that the law protects all. It may seem that the law is most necessary to reduce violence, but the greatest violence, the greatest threat to individuals, is actually the economic violence perpetrated with money.


Taxation is both a practical consideration of politics, and a symbolic representation of who is favoured by any given system. Any political system that has money, except anarchy, requires taxation. Why? In order to establish some control of where the money accumulates, and to ensure some element of fairness. The thing is; any political system that allows individuality will see both weak and strong individuals, and so must have laws that protect the weak from the strong, if there is to be fairness. Taxation is one of those laws, and is applied to the rich/strong in order to protect the weak/poor. This is called redistribution of wealth, and it is only wicked people, such as Ayn Rand - who in Atlas Shrugged referred to governments that tax as 'looters' - who argue against the necessity of taxation.


Money


Sovereignty, that word that featured so much as an excuse for Brexit, is the ability to rule, and so must always be underpinned by power, and money is one major form of power. Having sovereignty enables any society to create subjective money. Having external influence allows any society to establish credo [belief] within others that the currency is worthwhile exchanging things for. This gives the currency some modicum of objective value, as evinced by exchange rates.


All money is created by sovereign society - in practice by the Government, and this happens when the Government spends money, thereby passing it out into the world at large. It makes little difference on what the money is spent, but it makes a whole lot of difference where it is spent - who it is given to.


Money is the means by which assets - enabling wealth - may be accumulated. It is also the means by which liabilities - enabling poverty - may be accumulated. For this reason there is only one way that money can travel, from poor to rich, simply because poverty and wealth emerge from the movement of money creating assets and liabilities. Money always rises.


Money is destroyed by any means in which the Government obtains money. Generally this means taxation, but it also includes any Government sales, such as the sale of bonds, or the sale of Government owned assets, such as land, nationalised businesses, but most of all bonds. Bonds also commit the Government to some future spending, both as interest, and for repayment, but really this [National Debt] is no problem as long as it can be serviced, and it always can because the Government can always tax enough, or spend enough to service it, as long as there is Credo in the power of the Dollar, or Sterling, or whatever else. National Debt is really no different from the salaries and pensions that Governments are commited to, and they are just bog standard government spending.


This means that the Magic Money Tree is a merry-go-round, or more accurately a golden fountain that must continue flowing in order to exist. Here the Government acts in the manner of gravity, drawing money from the wealthy, via taxation, back down to the pool of the poor by spending where the poor are - on services that benefit everyone, such as environment, health, education, defence, etc. Maybe rain makes a better analogy - taxation is the condensation, gravity is government spending, and evaporation the natural behaviour of money.


Monarchy


Any monarchy is the ultimate expression of difference. It says that the monarch is special by right of birth, and gives licence to every other aristocrat, and even each wealthy person, who all benefit from the overarching principle that it is ok for some people to receive special treatment. However, their privilege only derives from the consequences of 'might is right', which is as morally bankrupt as 'greed is good'. Monarchy is a wicked system, even in modern societies such as the UK, because it supports gross inequality.


Patriarchy


Any patriarchy is comparable to monarchy, except hat there is no special individual, only a special class of people, generally older white males. As a system it suffers from all the faults of monarchy, and cannot be tolerated.


Conservatism


Conservatism is all about keeping things as they are, or preferably as they were a hundred years ago. As such it supports patriarchy and monarchy, and encourages the inequalities of difference. It is fair to label all conservatives as selfish, although most are only that way due to fear and stupidity, and so really should be pitied, were it not for the damage that their views cause.


Liberalism


Liberalism is a form of government that believes in 'Laissez faire', the individual has rights to liberty. This usually gives very little protection to the individual from other individuals. People either become exploited, or shot.


Socialism


Socialism is a form of government where the prime beneficiary of government is society. Socialism seeks to balance liberty and protection.


Marxism


Marxism is a form of socialiem, advocated for by Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels, whereby the 'means of production' are owned by the workers in those businesses. A situation that is thought to only be achievable through revolution. But really, it is the case that taxation has the potential to achieve the same ends - peacefully.


Communism


Communism is a system where property is owned collectively. In practice this usually means that it is held by the Government, on behalf of the population, but it isn't always so. Any shared collective, say a family, is communist in nature, unless it is run as a dictatorial patriarchy or matriarchy.


Anarchy


Anarchy is a political system where no-one has power.


Polyarchy


Polyarchy is a political system where many, or all have power.


The Future


In the Future Democracy will have no need for either money, nor a government as we know it, because the Internet is a tool that is capable of enabling the population to retain its individual power. People could vote on petitions, and on referenda, and could retain ownership of their votes, such that at any time they could change their votes in step with the way that they change their minds as they learn new information. Thjat also depends on having a population willing to learn.


Money is only necessary as a control on the flow of goods, and it has the downside of enabling wealth and poverty. With the Internet, we have an alternative tool for controlling the flow of goods - one that intrinsically does not necessitate the emergence of either wealth or poverty.



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