The System
What is The System?We hear it talked about all the time: "Blame it on The System;" "The System is broken;" "Put your trust in The System;" and so on. Every person has likely made reference to The System at one time or another. However, what is The System? If one had to pin down a precise definition, what would it be?I would define it as:
The System - the sum of all the recipes Man follows; the guiding ideas of Society
Given this broad definition, The System is all around you. Over time, Man has learned to employ reproducible methods which make the performance of tasks regular. Innovators sometimes come up with new methods that catch on, but for the most part, people follow the recipes of those that came before them - including but not limited to things like political philosophy, architecture, science, propaganda, culinary arts, parenting, lifestyle, etc. People become comfortable, familiar, and complacent with the way things are, and The System becomes entrenched.Much like a caste system, many people still follow in their parents' footsteps with regards to profession - for instance, politicians, teachers, military men and women, construction workers, bank executives, etc. Growing up they learned the roles they now play through observing the actions and teachings of their parents and other perceived authority figures. As The System ages and more and more generations pass through it, regimentation can often slow progress. Subsequent generations become cogs rather than operators - at all levels of Society.From time to time, deeply ingrained ideas fail and/or become outmoded - causing widespread disappointment and disbelief among the affected population. Parts of The System begin to repeatedly give undesired and unintended results - much like a car bumper that has been duct-taped on that, eventually, falls off again. Man tends to act in-line with this analogy by repeatedly making ad hoc patches to fundamentally broken recipes - piling on more and more duct-tape and kicking the can further down the road. A sentiment of - "We can make this thing work" - causes blindness while parts of The System continue to internally corrode. Denial, fueled by unwaivering allegiance to tradition, repetitively retards the evolution of ideas. It's often hard for folks to admit error - especially when long and deeply held beliefs are those under scrutiny.More should consider the words of Niels Bohr when confronted with the realization of failures in classical physics:
"How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress."
Throughout history, creative intellectuals were also commonly involved in debates of prevailing philosophical ideologies. However, today's intellectuals seem to narrowly focus on the problems facing their respective professions - as if there were a limit on how much they can learn and understand. Reason and curiosity are squandered in the name of "leave it up to the experts" - meanwhile the "experts" are increasingly of the bureaucratic persuasion. With the advent of subsidized research, intellectuals have divorced their minds from considering philosophical conundrums that lay criticism on the part of The System that feeds them - thereby largely becoming apologetic propagators of fundamentally flawed ideas.Consider the current paradigm of societal governance - the concept of the State. Most would agree that if an individual is getting robbed, it is within that person's rights to resist the aggression and/or seek to impose consequences on the perpetrator(s) after the fact. That is, it is nearly universally accepted among local populations that: "No person or group thereof have an inherent right to use force as a tool of theft." For example, when revealed, people tend to strongly oppose corruption within local police forces - like profiting from vice or unnecessary use of violence. Then, the question arises: If individuals do not have the right to steal from others, how can those same individuals delegate a right - they themselves do not have - to a select group of other people in attempts to impose their, sometimes radically different, versions of morality upon huge masses of culturally diverse people?Thomas Jefferson warned:
"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."
He also wisely stated:
"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."
The philosophical underpinnings of the State concept are rife with fallacy. I venture to say that no system of governance can persist in perpetuity that does not respect Human Nature. With the evidence provided from history, it is idealistic and fantastical to believe that one day "the right people" will be in control of the State complex. What history does demonstrate, however, is that Man is an adaptive creature that is innovative when left to ponder the questions and solutions of interesting problems encountered during life and is motivated towards production in proportion to the fruits realized from labor. Ignorance of this reality can be used to foretell the ultimate failure of any affected recipe.The System is the collection of ideas that guide human action. It is in the best interests of Humanity to confront failing paradigms head-on as they emerge and seek to implement long-term solutions in a timely fashion. Conformity for the sake of preserving tradition in the face of progress manifests patterns of insanity. Just as the belief of Earth being the center of the Universe eventually faded with greater exposure of objective reality, so will the concept of the State - rule by the edict of a privileged few - one day become an outmoded idea of the distant past.One interesting thing to recognize about The System is that it is largely ruled by the dead. Most of the people that generated the ideas/recipes that the modern world rests upon are themselves deceased. The people standing on all the various rungs of the ladder are primarily followers of their dead ancestors' prescriptions. This is why injecting sound ideas into Society is more effective than pointing fingers at individuals. Most people are followers - even those at the top of the food chain.The System is in dire need of problem solvers and vocal purveyors of reason. The pinnacle of human existence still lays in the future. Certainly, what We have now isn't even close to the apex - far from it.Receive access to ALL of our EXCLUSIVE bonus audio content – including “Conspiracy Corner”, “Degenerate Gamblers” and the “League of Liberty Podcast” by joining the Lions of Liberty Pride and supporting us on Patreon!
