Wednesday, August 3, 2016

                                                    Conspiracy Without Foresight;
                                                           Landscaping Service

        Removing the weeds and trimming down the overgrowth. Society, civilization from the dawn of history to today, has had mechanisms for such to deal with the social surplus - wealth generated beyond what is needed for sustenance. Why government came about in the first place, to tax and take away that which may, in itself grow too strong and out of control if not subject to reduction of its vigor upon the collective.

        But what was a weed, as opposed to a flower? And what was overgrowth as opposed to economic wealth? It soon became what ever in the eye of the subjective beholder. And what ever was good for the collective was a question of what therefore good for the one or the few as opposed to the many.

         The individual versus the collective. Or was it the collective deciding to define what was for the good of the individual? The wants of the peoples that were soon to be the needs of the peoples of what was before not needed. And the individual was to be defined by society's limitations.
 
         I dislike the word conspiracy unless it is strictly used to define the legal term of the criminal offense. "Conspiracy Theory" is often rightly maligned because what will fall under the umbrella of the conspiracy theorist  is not a crime but obscured machinations at best.

       Here I use the words conspiracy without foresight because even though it encompasses the activities that fall under the criminal definition, it depends more on consensus than a conscious design or deliberate agenda, and no need for central controllers even when they are present. Just the same old song and dance civilizations play from century to century from the rise of fall of the Roman Empire to the USA, like links in a chain or a rail track moving along as the same to its destination in oblivion -- Diogenes Ltd.

     


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