The Enduring Fallacy

March 24, 2008
by Evans Munyemesha

The Neverending Fraud: Politics and Political Authority Are Essential to Progress

The United States of America is presently engrossed in an excessively expensive search for the next head of State in the shape of a mortal. The object of this extravagant political exercise is to find the fittest human being qualified to make life better for the rest of us. Waiving the need to know what attributes such a human being must possess to effectively undertake the arduous task of improving the social and economic condition of multiple millions of Americans, and whether such a human being has or could ever exist, a question forces itself upon us: Are politics and political authority essential to progress?

It is an ancient and universal belief that progress is impossible without politics and political authority. This of course is a fallacy---notwithstanding the various great minds whose authority stands behind it. As we go about looking into the writings of political scientists and philosophers, writings which have supplied us with the absurd and palpable notion that politics and political authority are necessary institutions for the establishment of order in society, and consequently progress, the premise upon which this is deduced is found to be clearly insensible and thus without sanction by any sound analysis.

It is an inadmissible fact that society, which is efficiently regulated by higher and impersonal forces, must be bound by inferior, imperfect and personal forces to ensure progress. This mistaken belief has justified that periodic national democratic pastime where people freely choose their own despots, upholding them at the head of a highly cumbersome and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.

What is absurd and monstrous about this political affair is that even those people who have closely studied its vicious, cruel, violent and fraudulent effects (and wish to have no business with it) are entangled in it by the threat of force. We have this exampled in every 'free nation', a system where the majority of the people erect their own political idols through tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

A searching examination of the principles upon which this political system is founded compels us to acknowledge that these principles are only beliefs, imagined by ignorance, and preserved by custom and the fear of authority.

Whoever uses common sense upon opinions in support of this political system as a sure means to progress, and unceasingly exercises proper judgment in examining what will follow without renouncing his mind, will easily perceive that this is a ruinous invention.

This barbarous system, calculated for the illegitimate but legal means of accumulating power and wealth, contravenes the natural order of society in every conceivable instance, placing its hope on the fact that the more ignorance it could breed among the people, the surer its sandy foundation.

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Each land presents to us a tragic spectacle where the public offices and titles of the professional politicians are generally in inverse proportion to their intellects and skills (as is exampled in our day where a man of no known military accomplishments is made Commander-in-Chief.) The irony, both revolting and comical, is lost among all those men who are fanatically attached to 'my country, right or wrong.'

Politics and political authority would be a matter of indifference, if they did not cause innumerable ravages in the world. But people, prepossessed with the opinion that their political system is of central interest, instead of concluding wisely from this system's infinite shortcomings, failures, frauds, and daily fatalities, and that they are not bound to regard it at all, infer on the contrary, that they must debase themselves before it, without ceasing, to their own dehumanization.

Their unmistakable ignorance upon this political idol which is a legacy of their primitive forefathers who sought grounds for the worship of their kings irritates their curiosity; instead of putting them upon guard against their imagination, this invincible ignorance makes them fanatical and dogmatic, poisoning their minds, driving them to dangerously oppose all those who are skeptical of this political inheritance which they have accepted without due examination, saddling society with such crushing burdens.

From this state of affairs, lands everywhere are engulfed in the extravagant illusions of political prophets and senseless patriots, who, believing their empty political beliefs to be unconquerable eternal truths, and prophesying them as such, have inflamed the fanaticism of their citizens, and made them take up arms for political opinions, represented to them as essential to the glorious memories of their ancestors and the establishment of civilized governments; in the process, drenching the earth with tears of sorrow and innocent blood; this, in the name of politics.

Strange still are the ubiquitous practices among the nations that we call 'civilized,' adopting all the repugnant and execrable institutions of savage societies, they refine them to mask their true nature: serfdom, human sacrifice, and a form of cannibalism are legally permitted under militarism; robbery is indirectly sanctioned through eminent domain, taxation, and forfeiture laws; atrocious favoritism through law making; and immoralities, injustices, and legal murder through the exercise of political authority.

While each of these savage practices, now refined and nearly perfected, are prohibited if undertaken by individuals, they are however universally permitted as a matter of political concern, and dutifully performed without any regard to the carnage they leave behind them. The committed servants of this abhorrent business, most of them irrational and utopian, think themselves to be in the service of humanity as they go about staining the globe with miseries. The gloomy ideas of politics and political authority, everywhere and daily contradicted by science, are yet still carried on with the promise that from them progress will descend upon the earth.

How could progress ensue from the ideas of depraved mad men?

With politics, mad men have made it known that people must now quit thinking and acting for themselves; the institutions of politics are somehow fitted to think and act on their behalf. Thus convinced, people have their eyes fixed on these political idols, so faithful to them in anticipation of a progressive, happier and easier life---blind to the evidence which at every turn contradicts that which they have been taught to expect from political arrangement.

This political system, offering nothing in support of its claims, coercively binds each miserable mortal in the chains of political serfdom, slowly making him powerless and dependent.

Then, this political system steadily, stealthily and continuously strengthens itself, soon becoming impossible for the people to disentangle themselves from its deadly grip. It becomes sacred, establishes itself as a form of religion whose methods of operation are not to be rigorously examined or questioned, and its power is accountable to no one for around it is the impregnable armor of immunity.

So enslaved, the people are now too confused to hold any reasonable opinions, nor are they now able to think rightly about it. In this manner, the people become no different than domestic beasts of burden whose chief occupation is to meet the extravagant and wasteful demands of their self-chosen capricious politicians; and their sustenance is to be acquired by competing for political favors.

We are all aware that none of us could earn an honest living without first seeking the approval of this system erected for us by the human herd. Bound by an elaborate system of complicated rules which punishes independence but rewards dependence, the free advance of progress is needlessly restrained by the fancies of politics and political authority.

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