“Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.” ― Jean Jacques Rousseau
Telling isn't it?, not so much Rousseau's statement as is the fact that we live in what's virtually the exact antithesis, labouring away our lives in seemingly endless cycles of what's commended as productivity, one that comes across as beguiling, insofar as the socially idealistic connotation it's often ascribed to in an absent-mindedly mechanical, inhumanly materialistic system, yet mentally asphyxiating so far as the human emotional faculty goes which, such a way of life pays no heed to. We know it all to well, that distinct feeling of precarious dependence, on a system we're born into, to serve with our withering bodies and nurture with gruelling taxation and tacit compliance, a system whose financial construct is as incomprehensible to the average person as whatever scientific methodology used to calculate the distance between galaxies and stars. It makes one question if that's really how human beings were fundamentally meant to live, within some illusion of freedom that neither yields the fulfilment nor stability for which we've bartered our well being and strength. A system is often sound until the unforeseen moment of its catastrophic implosion, only then does the realization of profound naivete and societal stupidity hits. Proves all to well that Man learns only the hard way, and only by way of poignantly retrospective observation.
Antiquated governing structures, or systems as I perceive them given the mechanisms and doctrines with which they functions, and on which they're based are, more or less palpable expressions of various facets of human nature, of goodness and altruism manifested in charitable works, good governance, welfare and protection, and of the less pronounced mean spirited side whose manifestation is self evident, fecundate, methodical, religiously repeated and justified though conscience-defiling paramoralisms. All of which constitute the driving forces of human action, and a universally applied, man made structure like government (as anarchists see it) is but an ill-defined system defencelessly liable to convenience-driven reinterpretations. After all, Man made structures never stand the test of time no matter how much goes into the attempt of immortalizing them. Governments have become brittle structures in the light of a global endemic of moral ambiguity, in fact, such terms as 'shadow economies', 'big brother', 'deep state' and 'invisible hands', terms so numerous to name, have come to warn us of the grim reality of our world, our so called freedoms, well being and rights quickly become the portents of our dystopian katabasis. As we proceed to turn away from the fact that, our precious globe is has been enveloped by a network of collusive organizations, cartel and shadow economies, we shall soon, be completely divested from our humanity and our self-defining qualities in the long run.
