Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

—“You can reply with this snarky bulls—t or you can tell me why exactly governments exist if not to advance and protect the common good. Give me a competing theory of government. I’m not saying none exist. I’m just asking what yours is.’–Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog

1) Governments, in all cases, evolved like all organizations, using force to profit from the revenue generated by incremental domestication of humans, into production, versus having that revenue captured by others. Citizen customers provide higher returns than serfs and slaves.

2) This ‘voluntary laborer’ versus Socialist Worker, Serf or Slave is why communism, socialism, capitalism and anarchism fail, because the largest number of productive people have traditionally provided one of the resources necessary to conquer others and obtain those revenues.

3) So the very opposite of Walsh’s OP is true: Governments exist to provide the maximum extraction (rents) at while maintaining the minimum incentives necessary for the strong to take possession of the government by force, and themselves take the proceeds. All else is lies.

4) We can test this theory in every organization at every scale in every city, state, empire in history. Because all organizations grow to accumulate rent-seeking until lacking sufficient (all) capital reserves to incentivize adaptation to shocks, trade route loss, or conquest.

5) In the current era the means of holding power is to produce enough undermining of rule of law, undermining of the markets of cooperation between genders classes and tribes, disinformation, especially economic, that conquest by immigration is possible before its perceived.

6) Which is why I am certain that ‘never again’ will be ‘yes again’ because the people who undermine civilizations as a group strategy never seem to learn from their thousands of years of failure.

7) I never err. Ever.