If I Were King Of The Republic - A Political Treatise

Chapter 1 - Humanity

Quid enim? 'What are we' in English. Now, this dead tongue is not a purely philosophical question, there will be another place for that where I will give an in-depth philosophical answer. A very interesting answer if I do dare to make that kind of conjecture.

Humans are divine creatures. Divine, a very loaded and divisive term- what would I possibly mean by divine if not to say we are holy in the classical, religious sense? Well, I mean that whether or not you are deistic, what the word divinity encapsulates is a certain immeasurable, invaluable, and intractable worth of a human being. A deity can be either the literal or more metaphorical. The "tippest-top" of all systems of value conjoined would be a metaphorical deity.

At the same time, humans are the incarnate of chaos. Many seek thrill where peace exists, simply breaking rules because they exist for the gratification of some primal urge for the new per se. There are human beings who are evil for the sake of it. Morbid nihilisms form the core of many academic philosophies and fuel the fires of tyranny and death around the world for millennia. Humanity seems to be ninety percent sheep and only ten percent lion-  as in to say people for the most part are more content with living through the bad than truly going through what it takes to understand the world around them and the choices that need to be made. In a world where sacrifice ensures the future, we find ourselves surrounded by those who cannot pry their pathetic desires away from the cheese that sits upon the device of their demise. Through a combination of ignorance and weak will, humanity punishes the weakest and most innocent among us again and again.

There is yet, so much, just so much good. We have the potential to tame the heavens and earth and to usher in light and joy to everything we touch, as we increase in power and enlightenment. To cure disease and raise the poor and infirmed. Why must anyone see our own existence as a blight upon a universe where our simple being stands as the only existing proof of moral goodness beyond simple acts of the barbarian and simple minded fauna? In one moment you see a chimpanzee outstretching a hand in assistance to another, and in another instance you can see a band of chimps attacking and ripping limb-from-limb monkeys to eat while they still breathe and scream in agony. To claim the smartest animals like dolphins are good because they help human divers and swimmers, but to see yet a dolphin sexually assault other individuals. To claim that these instinctual beasts hold claim to the same light of divinity as we do is a farce. The world we live on does not care whether we come or go, and to value anything but our thriving is masochistic and misguided. That is not to say our responsibility to uphold as much goodness in that we can manage to help animals and keep our planet clean is not ours to bare.

Are we good? No.
Are we bad? No.
Are we intelligent? No.
Are we stupid? No.
Are we sheep? No.
Are we leaders? No.

But where these qualities are not universal or absolute truths, they are certainly true to differing degrees. We hold certain rights to be holy, and yet will tear them from where they are sewn into the fabric of society at the first opportunity to trade them for a smidgeon of porridge. I think that I am finally ready to declare my moral support, beyond just my instinctual support, for a monarchical system. I am most of the way to the idea that human beings cannot be trusted to maintain their own freedoms, and it should be the duty of those who wish to burden themselves with the task of forcing human beings to treat one another as such.

Let us take freedom of speech. It is better to speak our disdains than to act out their natures. There was a point in my life where I thought we all understood that, but time again I have been proven wrong. There is something to say about the ideologies of freedom and liberty, that they are certainly unnatural. To say that without society that humans would devolve into rapists and genociders- is false on its face. Of course, most people would be as kind as the situation would let them manage. But, there are those who would certainly find a way to slay as many as times their arms would allow a sword to swing. Or let's take something as simple as two neighbors having words between them, and one holds a distasteful view to the other? Why would this person, if so emotionally inclined through rage, not simply assault the other knowing that might makes right in this hellish world? Some other man may never harm a person for their words or thoughts, but more than enough would. My point is the obviously natural and correct idea of human beings as divine creatures is blatantly disrespected or woefully undermaintained.

The title of this piece is to say what if I were the monarch of this republic? It is a joke of sorts about my own position. I have such an immense love and respect for the sanctity of human life and consciousness that it pains my heart to know I cannot trust those around me to take care of it. To make a republic work the people must care, and they must educate themselves. This all takes an amount of effort the commoner is simply not willing to give. Any person of insight, regardless of leaning, knows the painful outside position you sit in at all times witnessing how little the common person truly cares for things beyond the simple food on their plates or clothing on their backs. Promises are made to many of these exact things. Clothes to be put on them, to be fed, to have a roof hanging overhead, and to feel secure knowing your necessities are taken care of- the same promises that can be made to a prisoner or a slave. Mankind aspires to greatness, man is along for the ride- if not being dragged along kicking and screaming in more instances than make me comfortable.

Mankind is beautiful, and their inmate love of peace in all things is their downfall. In desperate attempts to clutch at easy and simple things, they bind as Zeus did to Prometheus a fate of torture and renewing painful existence with momentary glimpses of human joy. I say it is time to let go of a system structured on human divinity, for a system that can actually be effective at sustaining it.