The Promise

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Humans accept rules and rulers in exchange for guaranteed safety and sustenance. When safety and sustenance are no longer provided all bets are off and anarchy replaces rule. We are creeping closer and closer to that extremely fine line every day.

People don't think anymore. They just parrot and believe what someone they think is smarter than them, or richer, has to say.

Those rules and rulers come with a small hope for safety and sustenance. They will eat the loafs, hand you the crumbs. and expect you to be grateful. They will put your young on the front lines as fodder in battle, and it will be your responsibility to protect and sustain them.

What little you receive will come with a hefty price.

And this is not new news. It has been thus from the beginning.

Samuel 8:11-17

11 He said, “These will be the ways of the king who will reign over you: he will take your sons and appoint them to his chariots and to be his horsemen and to run before his chariots.

12 And he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest, and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots.

13 He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers.

14 He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive orchards and give them to his servants.

15 He will take the tenth of your grain and of your vineyards and give it to his officers and to his servants.

16 He will take your male servants and female servants and the best of your young men[a] and your donkeys, and put them to his work.

17 He will take the tenth of your flocks, and you shall be his slaves.

Our government was supposed to be "by the people, and for the people".  We let that go down the tubes pretty fast. That is what happens when we become lazy and content.

What Lincoln said that we strive for:

"We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

We are a long way from the mark.