I admit that I keep wondering what could have been done differently, or, if we had it to do over again, what would we do next time that would prevent the government from becoming overbearing. There seems to me to be no solution. A government will arise in a civil society if for no reason other than people want an easy solution to the problem of keeping order and protecting rights. Once formed all governments grow. Over time that growth becomes a behemoth that is a problem and here we go again.

If you are somehow confused how a non-existent like government could *do* anything, the answer is quite simple. The government ***cannot*** do anything (it doesn’t exist). But humans who take the idea “government” seriously do – just as 5 year old kids who take the idea “Santa Claus” seriously do. It is not “Santa Claus” that makes them arise at the crack of dawn on Christmas morning – it is their mistaken notion that their bogus mental state named “Santa Claus” has a referent. It is the ***mental state*** that motivates, not the so-called referent.

Given this fundamental understanding, we can answer questions about “the appropriate role of government”. Given the fundamental understanding, the only two possible answers are:

#1: none
#2: no human may take any action on behalf of government that is not ethical as an individual

Therefore, if some human wanted to create a “brand” called “government” and offer services, they could do so… but the name of his fictitious entity does not give him any more rights or powers than any other human operating on his own behalf or on the so-called behalf of any other fictitious entity. Honestly, that’s all there is to this subject.

It is blindingly obvious that what we lack most in society today is truly just, moral and ethical leaders. Instead we have “Heads of State”. The Founding Fathers knew that being the Head of State meant that you were either (i) born with the right gender into the right family, or (ii) the best at playing the latest round of the game to get there, like “King of the Hill” each recess in grade school. They knew that history had repeatedly demonstrated that society would ultimately crave a Head of State to, in effect, worship, and that the mere occupation of that role by anyone would eventually corrupt them and their successors. So despite their best efforts to protect us from ourselves, over time a plethora of corrupt, and sometimes truly evil, heads of state have risen to the top of “the Hill” (figuratively and literally)conclusively proved this premise. In fact, Americans owe a huge debt of gratitude to the Founding Fathers because, without the truly inspired system of government they established, the U.S. would likely have seen several more immoral or amoral despots rising to the top job. Another Nixon or Bush, or even a Franco or Hitler, anyone? (And those are just the ones on the right side of the spectrum; you could add Carter, Obama, Mao and Stalin from the left and then argue which group is the “least vile”!)

So the vacuum left by non-existent leadership has been filled by frauds: Heads of State who simply seek power for power’s sake so they can impose their vision of society on the masses. But humans have always gotten the government they deserve, and the governmental chickens are now coming home to roost in the U.S.! Except they look and act much more like vultures….

Every chance I get I add content to the conversations at The Huffington Post that attempts to pull the subject matter into a context similar to what Mr. Woods and Mr. Casey have created in the video. It seems to work if one is polite and articulate. People allow something in if you don’t preface your comments with “You buffoon …”.