HUMILITY VS ARROGANCE

Humility vs Arrogance

Humility vs Arrogance

Social Arrogance is neither here nor there.  Human nature being what it is, most of us find ourselves at one time or another believing we're "better" than the next person in some respect.  But opinion is ultimately that—simply opinion.

Political Arrogance is different.  Where Social Arrogance is merely annoying, Political Arrogance is deadly.  This includes not only the obvious, literal, outright death of Genocide but the less-obvious, "murder in slow-motion" that is Slavery.

When Jesus came to Planet Earth on a Mission, it's no coincidence that He chose Real People—not Aristocrats—as assistants.  But Aristocrats were not just useless for that particular Mission, they're useless for any Mission whatsoever.  Aristocrats come not to Serve, but to compel others to serve them instead.

The Political history of humankind has been all about perfecting the sort of institutions that Aristocrat wannabes need in order to do what they came to do.  Government—based on made-up law—is the result.  But while lots of thinking people probably agree with Jefferson's observation that "that government is best which governs least," the startling logical conclusion implicit in it has seemingly yet to dawn on us—that the best possible government is none at all.

The very word "governance" is simply a euphemism for Slavery.  It describes a situation in which a small, select group of people is charged with telling all of the rest of us what we must and mustn't be doing about our own affairs.  It's about control—external control.

But Freedom isn't being controlled by others.  Neither is it the absence of control, better known as Anarchy.  Freedom is self-control.  It is only through self-control that Real Freedom—self-ownership—becomes possible.

Now, self-control is a pretty tall order—no doubt about that—but it's well within the capabilities of most people.  In fact, all governments—from the worst to the best—already rely on it to a large (and largely uncredited) degree.  Imagine what could happen if a set of institutions devoted to supporting self-control were developed to replace those supporting external control for all (not just that minority of us who actually require it).

The absence of Slavery—the absence of Aggression—is not something that ever has occurred or can be expected to occur in an institutional vacuum.  We've been conditioned to assume that government is somehow the proper home for Slavery's antidote—Defense—even to the degree that government has achieved a virtual monopoly over it.

But government—an institution built upon coercive, human-invented law—is poorly suited to that particular task.  Government does not protect us well from itself.  It's a deeply schizophrenic creation that Defends us on the one hand and commits Aggression against us on the other.  The fact that the best governments are vastly superior to the worst ones does nothing to negate its inherent unsuitability to Defense as a general principle.

Let's say though that we have thought about this and are still happy that Jesus actually said "No one comes to the Father but by me" What does this actually mean?Does it mean, as orthodox ...