Volume 10, Issue 24
The business community now adds to the growing public dissatisfaction with government. The right track-wrong track measure of public disapproval continues to reach new highs of wrong track perception. For citizens’ grievances to be adequately addressed, requires individual reflection upon the government-citizen relationship. Each citizen must decide what, in fact, they want government to protect in the aggregate for their lives. Is it a generic standard of defending life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as an environment for universal prosperity? Or is it the advancement and augmentation of a personal special interest or cause without consideration for the overall benefit of opportunity defended as a national creed?
Until American citizens agree on the righteous purpose of government, government will leverage differences of opinion and special interests against citizens to divide them for the purpose of increasing government power.
And so it has always been in the relationship of mankind and government.
Yuval Harari argues in his book Sapiens, embraced by progressive elitists internationally, that mankind distorted the course of evolution by thwarting its development to its natural conclusion. He refers to Homo sapiens’ success in creating thought as the cognitive revolution. He admits that there is no known theory for why, after 2.5 million years, the Homo genus was able to produce abstract thinking. However, he credits this phenomenon with establishing myths that have hampered society. One such misconceived myth identified is the creation of religion.
Harari proffers that religion served the purpose of allowing and controlling large numbers of people to act in concert, according to the same rules, for general governance. This allowed society to evolve as a behavioral structure. Government was born out of the need for tribal hierarchy to establish and maintain power. Religious beliefs and ecumenical councils coexisted with government as moral counter balances.
The first political party recorded in history was established by Christian monks in the 9th century. In an effort to counsel King Alfred the Great (England) and hold him accountable for righteous government, they issued the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Alfred, being a Christian, accepted the criticism and made adjustments to government policy.
“Atheists and secularists claim that King Alfred and [America's] Founding Fathers were duped by Christian philosophy. They argue that Christian doctrine was a crutch that didn’t really have any foundational [generational] value or any eternal meaning.
But they cannot deny that King Alfred’s acceptance of accountability, and [America's] Founding Fathers’ treatises on unalienable rights, were Christian in origin. There is no dispute that these leaders claimed Christianity as the basis of their philosophy for government. The concept of self-rule and an eternal covenant with God in principles, rendering righteousness in government, has been advanced and protected by Christian doctrine.”
Nuttle Report November 19, 2019
If unalienable rights did not come from God, them from whom or what? Government, since the beginning of recorded history, has existed to maintain and extend power over society. Through every civilization in history, governments were balanced with a theocratic philosophical counterpart. This equilibrium of checks and balances provided a beneficial order for a measure of government accountability. This was consistent throughout history whether it be Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Holy Roman Empire, or the kings of Europe.
Unchecked, government has always evolved into totalitarianism. There is no hidden egalitarianism in the DNA of mankind. There is no basis for righteousness stemming from the theory of evolution. To conclude that the cognitive revolution somehow perverted societal structure with the invention of religion, leaving remnant impediments for the advancement of society today, is beyond farcical, it is nonsensical in reference to the historical facts.
Government will always leverage special interests to divide and conquer society. Only when citizens demand unity on universal principles will government ever heed its own actions. This is not a progressive or conservative conflict. It is not a Republican, Democrat, or Independent Party dilemma. This is a time in history when the vast dissatisfaction of the people with government can be utilized to forge a new covenant between the citizens and their government. Differences of opinions and special interests must be recognized as an opportunity to redefine government purpose to protect the peoples’ will through self-rule.
The church, through its authority of discipling nations, manifested the codification for the code of righteousness. Americans today must decide, with definitive determination, the umbrella of unalienable rights they demand, extended to all citizens, that in effect personifies the character of the United States. Without the shadow of liberty cast in a protective order recognizable by all individuals, government will recourse purpose for its own benefit.
The government will never change as long as we citizens allow government to play us against each other to further leverage its own power. This compulsory objective begins with each of us subjecting our personal philosophies and special interests to the greater construct of liberty for all, protected by all.
It is critical that we as Americans commit to eliminate the hyphenated description of our identity as a priority. In so doing, African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, Native-Americans, Asian-Americans, White-Americans, and so on, we all see ourselves as Americans first. This does not mean that we give up our beliefs, opinions, or individual cultural values. It does mean that we stand for and protect each other on the constitutional liberties that distinguish us as Americans.
More controversial opinions from the Supreme Court are due this summer. Inflation will continue into the next year. World geopolitical conflict will escalate.
Facing these problems together as Americans requires that we see each other the same, as Americans, and hold our government accountable for the same objective as our servant.
To become one nation, we must move beyond identity politics.
My name is Marc Nuttle and this is what I believe.
What do you believe?
Next week:
Part Two
Mankind-Government Covenant