The myth of benevolent governments survives throughout history, mainly because the writers of history rarely tried to create an objective account of the past.
Most areas of history simply perpetuate the myth of the necessity of government. Historians rarely care about common people, and the various ways they suffered from the introduction of individual property and government.
This perspective fits perfectly to the attitude of the ruling class, which doesn't care about common people either. Commoners deserve no better than to finance their oppressors, and gain their handicapped position in society rightfully by birth.
Nobody would seriously doubt that most citizens were used and abused by their feudal governments, but that has changed the French Revolution, hasn't it? And the Western World consists exclusively of nations that call themselves democratic, doesn't it mean that now power belongs to the people?
No. To exercise and demonstrate power, you need money, and that belongs still to the same families that owned most of the planet 500 years ago. The names and borders of nations, and the way governments are organised have changed, but the European Aristocracy, the catholic church and some old banking families have still unrivaled financial resources and real estates.
Most revolutionaries were simply deluded by the demonstration of overt power by governments, and underestimated the influence of the banking system on power structures. Revolutions just replaced people in positions of powers, but didn't reform the structures itself or abolish/reduce the dependency on monopolistic currency outlets.
The monetary system used on this planet is not designed for the most efficient use of the tool money, but to concentrate material power in the hands of a few. All money is issued as a debt (from the privately owned Reserve and Central Banks) which systematically prevents a balanced system. Debt grows exponentially, just like cancer, and affects individuals and nations similarly bad.
Although money occupies the mind of modern people a lot, the mechanics and origins of the monetary system remain to most a bigger mystery than the Big Bang. Unfortunately. Ownership, one central aspect in the life of many people, does not exist in nature.
Nature has no equivalent to a title register, and knows nothing about a human right to property. In contrast, each livable spot on this planet teems with interdependent and interacting species. And although some animals claim a territory, they can't use their lower classes to go to war or hide behind lawyers, struggles are fought directly and not vicariously like man does.
Although we might have problems imagining a world without land titles and money, mankind easily survived some hundred thousand years without these ideas. That should not imply that mankind would do better without money and the idea of ownership, but that property has its origin in theft, and nothing else, and is in no way something natural.
Nobody owned planet Earth before some regents used bureaucracy and military to rob it from their people. Nowadays about 75% of all registered land is owned by a handful private persons and organisations, which happily use the force of law (and force in general) to get rid of the people who used to live on their newly acquired property.
Instead of despised for the crimes of their ancestors, wealthy people receive heaps of undeserved respect. Mainly due to some massive PR that tries to hide that governments care more about power preservation than its people.
Let's take Bill Gates for example. The legend tells that he build his economic empire from the scratch, in a shabby garage. The fact, that he belonged to a wealthy bankers family, is mostly omitted when his success story is told. It simply doesn't fit into the myth of a dishwasher that became rich, but then, did this really ever happen?
The distribution of wealth, and why it got distributed the way we know it, lacks any convincing explanation. Individual wealth finds its origin in injustice and coercion, nothing else.
However, a lot of people simply don't care about the monetary system and rather believe in benevolent governments. This believe is fostered by the media, and immigration regulations. While you might easily change your internet provider, changing your nationality turns out to be no viable option to get value for tax money.
Democracy thrives on participation, and this means more than just electing a representative who agrees to 90% with their opponent.
Although I firmly believe in the good of mankind, I appreciate accountability for those in power. I can only trust those I know personally, if you want me to hand over responsibilities to government, I want to see checks and balances.
Unfortunatly, politicians claim their moral impeccability as excuse to prevent thorough democratic control. Without control, power belongs to those who exercise it, and not the people, no matter what Unspeak expression you'll find to name it.
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