The Role of Government


           
             Section 4:  Governmental Identity, and Pursuits of Mankind

  The government is not to falsely impede or accelerate the natural progression
of man.  Representatives must not falsely represent the people for which they
speak in effort to gain a benefit for the individuals.  Representatives must not
fabricate, embellish, or otherwise magnify the wants, needs, and desires of
their constituents.  Representatives must not lead each other astray or cause
one another to present fictional accounts of wants, needs, or desires to the
individuals they represent.  

  A representative must only deliver the information originated from the
individuals in their constituency just as it was presented to them.  All the
efforts of convincing and debating must be born from within the individual who
wants, needs, or desires the outcome.  Representatives must not attempt to
sell an idea or action to each other.  The natural inclination of individuals must
carry people to their final disposition. It is not through the talents and efforts of
other people through which we individuals must make our gains and successes,
but through the persistent and rigorous efforts of our own devices.  People must
not pursue, and the government must not allow, benefit from unwitting or
unwilling participants.  

  The natural acceleration of humanity must remain in the hands of individual
pursuits.  Governments must not force mankind to a specified goal, especially
under the guise of “common good”.  An individual, or a group of people who
come together with concurrent sentiment, cannot will another individual or group
to work towards an uncommon goal.  The government, those representatives of
the individuals, must thwart any attempt to do so by clearly understanding the
wants, needs, and desires the people presented to them; and they in turn to
other representatives and in turn to other individuals.  Thus, the representative
will be able to accurately and effectively put forth the message to their
constituents brought to them from another representative.  Thereby allowing
individuals to truly present and respond to the wants, needs, and desires, of
other individuals.

  If the individual, or a group, misleads their own representative, then it is of
no fault of the representative.  Since it is not the wants, needs, and desires of
the representative but of the people, then it is simply a case of individuals lying
to other individuals.  The government cannot allow itself to be a mask.  The
government cannot allow itself to be the scapegoat by which individuals blame
their follies.  It is not the role of the government to take the blame or burden
responsibility of an outcome initiated by citizens.  The individuals who initiate
the pursuit of a goal must be held accountable for the outcome.  Accepting
blame or credit or any action or outcome would give the government and
independent identity.  The government does not have an independent identity;
the people have the identity.





                                                                                   -A.J.B
Copyright 2009.