Henry Thoreau in his work Civil Disobedience, who coined the phrase that “the best government is that which governs least”. He saw the government as a fabrication of synthetic needs, created by groups with their own agendas and interests, so that man believes that he is dependent on the manager of his needs.
A mere fiction, a kind of drug that is assimilated to the addiction that the mother biologically leaves in the child, who will also be born addicted, even though he has never directly consumed the product that now ensnares him. In this case, society would be like a mother, and citizens like a child.
He is burdened by the suggestion of his uselessness, he is presented again and again with the supposed inability to rule himself, he is closed within the horizon of society, enslaving him to the norms that, in his internal forumhe never agreed, but accepts it by force of tax rigor and group pressure.
When government invades the tributaries of personal conscience, it stains them with ink that eventually changes consistency and color of water, everything is permeated with a colorful kind of pollution. So, one comes to the wrong conclusion that it is man was made for governments and not so governments for man; that a human being cannot live in society without the imposing iron hand of an external authority dominating his basic impulses.
This is all wrong and this is all fiction. Personal development is not the result of external factors of motivation, but on beliefs that are woven into a person from an early age. He does not kill because the rule prevents him from doing so, but because his conscience restrains his urges to kill; He does not steal, because he soon becomes convinced that this act of taking from others what is theirs in order to make it his own, is the trigger for of violence, which starts a storm that will, sooner or later, reach him; he does not expect from others what is on him, because he has never assimilated the habit of a close parasite, of eternal social nursing in his daily activities.
A person already carries from his house what society itself needs to channel. It should be the finished product of his training and contribute to the world and community what he already carries with him. The problem may be economic. We still think of governments as shaping character and conscience; able to demand a high price for that patronage. To the extent that government is reduced, the private entity is strengthened in all aspects, economic entrepreneurship and personal development are encouraged.
If we entrust governments with tasks that, of course it suits the parents, we will have As a result, expectations are too high, shoes the size of which the government can never fill. It simply does not suit a machine, to which the citizen agrees as a delegate of authority that is only his responsibility, to perform functions that are above personal responsibilities and that none other than man can never develop. does it exist inThere is no army of professional politicians who line up to use the dais as if they were stages in a great theatre, with the well-defined purpose of enthralling the unsuspecting, the ignorant, with the habit of fatherly lies that, if elected, they will assume that fatherly task, protector and guardian, that only youIt ends by exhausting the strength and initiative to overcome the individual.
Everything in nature requires personal effort. Even the vines, which climb to the light by means of spines they know from others that climbing is their job and that no one else can do it for them.
Source: Panama America
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