CHAPTER 4
We all know, two factors always remained hugely critical in human lives since even before civilized life-living. First was external aggression from neighboring and competing tribes or groups of humans and second were intra-society conflicts over ownership and cognate issues. These two issues were common in all groupings of humans, who were united at a geographical space bonded by kinship and common identities of life-living. It is only natural that state and polity as protector and arbitrator of collective life-living troubles had common genesis in all human groupings spread in different parts of Earth.
Though there are various theories of origin and evolution of state and polity, there were essentially two broad themes, which presented the basis for state and polity. These two themes actually correspond to two critical issues of Defense and Arbitration, which we have talked about in previous paragraph. The state and polity may have various theories about origin and evolution but all of them correspond to these two broad themes – State as Defender from External Aggression and State as Lawful Arbitrator of societal disputes. Therefore, all the theories of state and polity broadly hover around two elements of ‘Powerful Organization’ and ‘Legitimate-Lawful Authority’.
Apart from the philosophical debates about the nature and scope of state as powerful and legitimate entity, which abound in the long history since 1000 BC to 20th Century, the singular, core and critical common element in all philosophies was the indisputable and irrevocable ‘Sanction Of Exclusive Violence’ to state and polity. The very idea of state and polity is permanently wedded to the notion of violence and its exclusive possession by state and its agencies. From the small and homogenous Polis of ancient Greece to modern welfare state of 21st century, the single common thread that links every notion and perspective of state and polity is its exclusive and unchallengeable legitimacy for violence – on ‘Aggressors’, be it external or internal. The 21st century reality, very commonly manifest in all types of states and polity, is about state becoming an unbridled entity, which has played monster with this ‘legitimacy’ of exclusive use of ‘Violence’, sans any reasonable and logical context of legitimacy. The state and polity has itself become the ‘adjudicator’ of ‘legitimacy-test’ and therefore, violence has become synonymous with anything that is associated with state and polity.
Here, it has to be understood that there is one thing, which is omnipresent, inevitable and common in all forms and shades of state and polity. It is the critical element of ‘Legitimacy Of Authority’. Barring a few philosophers, most philosophies have in one way or other not only endorsed the ‘Authoritative’ nature of state and polity, rather also advocated for more strength to state power and authority for a peaceful and orderly society. From this critical element of legitimate authority of state for violence emanates the fringe philosophy of ‘Mandate of People’. Not only democracy and modern welfare state, even ancient kingdoms and autocracies always ensured that their unbridled ‘Legitimacy of Authority’ was invariably presented to have ‘Mandate of People’. This is the tragedy of humanity that all evils of humanity are orchestrated in the name of welfare and benefit of humanity itself. It is huge travesty of humanity that most crimes against human dignity and human lives always had and still has the ‘Mandate of People’. One set of humanity is massacred and annihilated as another set of humanity is ‘made to’ extend its ‘Mandate’ for Legitimate and Authoritative violence.
The singular trouble of humanity since thousands of years, even after civilized life-living has been this abstraction and mysticism about Mandate and Legitimacy. Even in contemporary modern nation-states, with democracies deeply entrenched and welfare state tag stylishly flaunted, there are no singular, scientifically objective, foolproof and definitively justiciable framework, edifice and process to weed out the abstraction and mysticism out of mandate and legitimacy. This primeval and perpetual trouble about mandate and legitimacy is what contemporary human knowledge in 21st century can do away with. The twin issues of mandate and legitimacy can now be scientifically encoded and humanity now has the technological wherewithal to create foolproof execution of the new methodology of mandate and legitimacy. This is what the very idea of people Having The Crown Back is all about.
What we are trying to arrive at in this eBook is that we are in 21st century. The collective human knowledge of objective and irrefutable science has empowered humanity with critical technologies and other cognate abilities to weed out abstractions and mysticisms not only in the practical domain of Mandate and Legitimacy but all other issues of life-living. We all sure can do it. Humanity has enough critical and scientifically objective knowledge about Reality and in the light of Reality and holistic knowledge of all sub-realities of life-living, we all must shed our continuation with archaic and obsolete abstractions and mysticisms.
No doubt, Politics and Religion are two domains where abstract and mystical elements of Reality are still most prolific and with worst manifestations but all thinking men and women have to make a promise to himself and herself that they shall grow out of abstract and mystical thinking in all walks of life-living. This we all must do, then only We The People can rightfully claim to Get Our Crown Back…
This issue of having scientific, objective and logical clarity over core aspects of state, governments and politics has to be understood in detail so that all abstractions and mysticisms, especially about legitimacy and mandate are done away with. This shall not only help in evolving a novel model of state, governance and politics but shall also empower common men and women to understand how crucial it is to have knowledge of Reality for human dignity and liberty. We detail all this in the coming paragraphs.
It has become a global trend that the state, its institutions and governments almost always question the credentials of an individual and are out to verify the culpability of its own people. It is now time to reverse the role and stand the state, its institutions and governments to test for their credentials and culpabilities. It is beyond any reasonable doubts that in the last 100 years, since sovereign states and popular government-led democracies have ruled majority of humanity and handled most of international relations, the biggest and deadliest culprits are not people or group of people but the state and governments; even the duly elected welfare states.
It is rather a huge hypocrisy that most states and their democratic governments have enacted such harsh and absolutist laws, in the pretext of ‘culpability of people’ against state sovereignty and so-called national interest and nationalism, which have violated the human rights most. They have proved hugely potent weapon for mass destruction of human dignity. The brutality of state and governments is on the rise and they keep blaming it on people, standing them as culprits of violation of state sovereignty. This has to be understood in detail of holism.
There have been systematic researches and sufficient records already in public domain about the massive culpability of states and governments in killing its own people. The word, ‘Democide’ is now a reality in almost all countries of the world, not only dictatorships but also in democracies, where people are supposed to be the sovereign. Democide means intentional killing of unarmed and innocent people of one’s own country by the state and government agencies. Broaden the scope of the Democide by including all innocent and unarmed people, who are caught in the cross-fire of nations’ stupid and gruesome hypocrisies of so-called National Interest-led international relations; the human loss, miseries and annihilation of Human Dignity are colossal.
Different human rights organizations and independent researchers put the figures of global Democide somewhere between 170 to 260 millions in the last century. And do ask why these huge numbers of innocent and unarmed men, women and children were killed? The singular answer is because of ‘National Interest’, as defined and installed by the politics of the day. The state and governments, even the democratic nations and so-called welfare states are now unfettered and absolute in their power and authority to put the ‘National Interest’; or a far more vague idea of ‘National Security’, above everything; above lives of people. Tragically enough, the judicial systems of countries are also happily aligning with state and governments, not the common people and their human rights. They also favor politics and governments by buying the abstract and mystical notion of National Interest and failing to extend any relief to people whose liberties are massacred on the name of national interest. And, do also ask what this ‘National Interest’ is?
It is the brilliance of the brightest of stupidities and hypocrisies that millions of innocent and unarmed people are killed for the sake of something, which is probably the most abstract, mystical and immeasurable reality of human world. Both the words – Nation as well as Interest; or for that matter Security, are abstractions and indistinctness glorified to noblest of munificence and magnanimity. The state, governments and politics are unbridled and unaccountable in defining national interest as per their whims and fancies. They either have the judicial system ‘nexus-ed’ to validate their abstractions and mysticisms or the judicial system feels it okay to fall in line with the populist pressure, which politics successfully garners over the sensitive issue of national interest. The citizens have no recourse to justice against state repression over them, in the name of whimsical and illogical idea of national interest.
This is what human mind consciousness is a genius at. This human genius of designing and devising ingenious abstractions and vagueness has its expression and reflection in almost everything humans think and do. The best and most innovatively cunning are however reserved for religion and politics. This National Interest idea and idealism has many parallels. A woman asks her lover, ‘How much you love me?’ The lover replies with confidence and intelligent assurance, ‘I love you as much as stars in sky and I can pluck the moon for you.’ The woman in love is hysterically elated and deeply satisfied with the Legitimacy and sincerity of the Mandate of her man’s love! Love for the wildest of stupidities called nation is always more mystical and intense and therefore, populism innovates myriad of hypocritical legitimacy and mandate for national interest.
This abstraction is our design. This instinctive and innate propensity for everything abstract, intangible and formlessly vague is the way our consciousness works out Reality, the way we accept. This we all know, as modern science has unraveled this Reality for us in the last few decades, with empirical and mechanismic evidences. This is also what we all know as the basis of ‘Populism’, which rules most Reality domains of human world and is accepted with universal ease and liking. Religion and politics are the master craftsmen of this artistry of populism manufacturing. Most things populist is majorly and innately abstractive and vague by their design and intent. Nationalism, national interest, national security, patriotism, or for that matter most ‘isms’ based on identities and ethnicities are abstract and vague. It is because they have the true and natural basis in the deep and lateral plexus of our brain states and their mechanism. If history of humanity is a living document of the infinite spectrum of stupidities and hypocrisies, which caused untold miseries to people, killed millions of innocent and unarmed people, wreaked havoc on peaceful existence of large sections of population and annihilated the Human Dignity in innumerable ways, we now in 21st century do know that it was because of the stupid design of human mind consciousness with immense propensity for abstractions and mysticism. This stupidity has to end in 21st century and naturally, state and politics shall automatically lose any semblance of legitimacy and mandate if these abstractions are dropped.
Therefore, what stands now as beyond any doubt is the singular Reality that our contemporary human world does not need politics and government for 7 billion plus people and their missing wellness. Humanity does not need nation-state systems, the power and authority of state and governments, the military might of huge armies, the fast growing national and global economies, however democratic and liberal they might seem, for the solutions of human troubles. What humanity needs is a universal and globally implementable common single and scientific education mechanism and process, which could deal with intrinsic, innate and embedded troubles and weaknesses in human mind consciousness design. Humanity does not need politics, governance, economy, moneys, wealth, religion, cultures, etc. What it needs for its lasting wellness, peace and prosperity is Science – The objective, empirical, measurable and verifiable knowledge of Holism of Reality. Humanity needs objective and holistic mind training, a universal education mechanism, across borders of nationality and all other identities-ethnicities, to tide over the innate and intrinsic troubles of its mind consciousness, which is the seed of all troubles and therefore the singular object of correction. This human integration is one-point agenda of humanity and it must now be initiated.
The 21st century world is standing on the definitive threshold of singular probability – either humanity accepts its stupid hypocrisies, sheds its current obsession with abstract Reality and embarks on a course-correction, which is now well laid out, or perishes in foreseeable future, which is the most likely probability. Humanity cannot survive very long if it continues with the contemporary stupidities and hypocrisies, which the current nation-state system, politics and governments, national and international economy and international relations uploads on human world with impunity. The human world is brimming at the edges and it is definitely moving towards its own annihilation. The only course-correction towards reversal to sanity and survival is singular universal knowledge and education system for human mind training to integrate all humanity into singular ‘identity’, to weed out troubles in the very design of the human consciousness and cognition. And, it shall be very natural that all other domains of human knowledge shall have to be integrated for this singular purpose of correction of consciousness.
What needs to be understood and accepted with objective and holistic mind consciousness is the fact that most troubles of humanity have a singular basis and this basis is the very design of Human Consciousness. If human world has so many things so good, beautiful and right, they also come from the human consciousness itself. All good and bad, right and wrong have their basis in human consciousness as it is the sole entity, where Reality is unraveled at its myriad shades, engendering twin probabilities of good and bad, right and wrong. Therefore, what is needed to be managed and engineered is human consciousness. This is the sole and exclusive domain of scientific, objective, measurable and verifiable mind training through a universal education-academic system. This is hugely specialized domain and therefore only top scientific brains can be entrusted with the task. Of course, the scientific expertise has to work in perfect integration with all fields of human knowledge and also, all fields shall have to suitably synchronize and synergize their own knowledge dispensation. But surely, it shall not be as it is in contemporary human world, where all power and authority for all decisions regarding human life-living and affairs are solely in the hands of a handful of politicians, who have the single eligibility of having ‘populism’ in their favor to stupidly claim as Solution-Makers of human troubles.
Effectively, it may be that billions of people vote and elect a handful of politicians and in a sense validate the requirements of democracy but once elected, these handfuls shall become sole destiny-makers of these billions and, these billions have not a whiff of anything that this handful of politicians would do in the name of the welfare of the same billions. These politicians shall decide the syllabus of education, they shall decide what and which way billions of humans, from childhood to adulthood would learn and not learn. They shall decide what Reality is for billions of humans and shall use the colossal might of the authority of state institutions and agencies to execute their own ‘Personal Will’ over billions. The ‘General Will’ of billions shall finally become subservient to ‘Personal Will’ of handful or even one or two politicians. This is how the abstraction of ‘Populism’ works in human world. This is how abstractions and hypocrisies present and install Reality for human world.
This stupidity and hypocrisy is what human history has documented well, yet, humanity is never ever willing to learn from history and set out for a course-correction. This happened so far because humanity didn’t have this critical knowledge of human consciousness and Reality. The 21st century humanity cannot let this stupidity and hypocrisy continue as it shall and it is already leading humanity to complete annihilation. The question of Human Dignity may seem relatively a smaller concern, yet it is the seed requirement of any semblance of ‘welfare’ of people.
In this eBook, why we are saying, ‘Give Me My Crown Back’ because of the historical evidence that humanity began by installing the supremacy of education and intellect over politics and governance of people. Initially, politics and state power was placed under the repository of knowledge and intellect of humanity, who had no power and authority but people’s mandate. It is because they accepted the role of state and its institution to empower and enrich the moral consciousness of people. They represented the General Will and upheld the mandate of masses by reigning in the state and rulers. The General Will of the masses was based on the contemporary understanding of Reality, which the academicians, philosophers and intellectuals proposed and not by the ‘Personal Will’ of the handful of rulers or politicians.
If we look at the history of human civilization, it is clear that in almost all ancient civilization, be it Indian, Greek, Roman or Chinese, this was the common basis. The collective intellect of contemporaneous humanity in ancient times was respected and given leadership position even in kingdoms where the King was supposed to be the agent of God. The ancient wisdom of philosophy had jurisprudence and individual dignity as key ingredients.
This changed in the evolution of times and modern democracies toppled this trend completely. Globally, be it the developed nations or the underdeveloped ones, intellectuals, academicians, scientists and thinkers have completely been alienated from political-governance decision-making process. It is now done predominantly by a nexus of politician-bureaucrat-corporate oligarchy. Brilliantly enough, this oligarchy has now ensured to install a perfect contempt of masses towards intellectuals, thinkers and scientists. The academic-educational institutions and their financial-academic independence and autonomy has successfully been annihilated and made slave to the ‘Nexus’. Globally, politics and governments are brutally destructing the intellectuals, civil society voices and that of the activists. As global Reality stands today, politicians of all shades have successfully installed in the minds of the masses that they alone are the voice of sanity and the only legitimate expression of Reality.
Contemporary world’s biggest trouble is that despite the fact that modern collective human knowledge has come to understand and successfully explain Reality and also human consciousness; it is still confined only to a small and detached Ivory Tower scientific community. The modern knowledge does not reflect in any field of knowledge, which affects common people, barring the technology field. Contemporary scientific knowledge still has little reflection in important fields of education, psychology, philosophy, politics and economics. These fields still remain in the classical age of knowledge and still not interested in integration of their knowledge-fields to allow an update of their knowledge pool and reforms.
Politics is the most stubborn entity resisting any attempt to scientific temper and updating their obsolete ‘genetic’ structures. The state structures and governmental institutions have systematically resisted any reasonable attempts to integrate their work culture with modern scientific knowledge. They need the ‘Reforms’ in most urgent and deepest ways and yet, they are the most reluctant to reforms. Modern technologies and instrumentalities have very clearly necessitated the need for massive transparency and openness in state functioning and governmental administrations. However, politics and governments thwart all attempts to modernize and reform their functioning.
The politics and governments rather, annihilate the legitimacy and utility of all other fields of human knowledge by superimposing their own ‘Populist Reality’, which the masses love, as a foolish woman loves her lover’s abstract expression of ‘plucking moon’ for her as ultimate guarantee of the veracity and sincerity of his love for her.
The worst scenario of this situation is that in contemporary human world, there is a vacuum of knowledge and intellect having their dominant stake in ‘General Will’. This, as we discussed earlier, humanity had attained and begun with as early as 5000 years back. The pack of humanity traditionally had intellect and knowledge as its leadership. This has been intentionally killed by politics and governments in contemporary world. Science in contemporary world has reached a stage of brilliance and singular trust, yet it has zero stakes in ‘General Will’ of the masses. As true and real knowledge of contemporary humanity does not have any connect with ‘populist perceptions’ of the masses, which politics so successfully nurtures in its favor, the billions of average men and women do not look up to science and its collective wisdom and intellect for acceptance and installation of Reality in their life-living. Other fields of knowledge are not even in reckoning as the only two other fields, which have connect with masses – psychology and spirituality, are themselves the worst culprit of supplying pseudo-science and populism to the contemporary Reality.
It is this huge vacuum, which has resulted in calamitous causality for human world as crafty and hypocritical politics has filled in this vacuum and has successfully staked its authoritative claim on the freehold of stakes of General Will of the billions of average men and women. The crafty politics and opportunist politicians successfully install a Reality for masses, which is abstract, vague and populist, as against the objective, measurable and verifiable Reality, which contemporary science has deciphered. The politics and governments have completely monopolized their authority over ‘media’ and ‘communication’ plexus of human societies and they use the power and penetration of mass media to install their Personal Will of populist perceptions as the General Will of the masses. This is doom situation for humanity.
Look at the big nations of the contemporary world. They have extra-ordinary and brilliant human brains enriching science and all other fields of human knowledge and excellence. But, they are nowhere in the mainstream or populist memory. They are not the ‘celebrities’ the masses rave about and die to admire. They and their objective Reality do not even count in the General Will and National Interest projection of their countries, as if they do not exist. However, these big, powerful and brilliant countries have ‘charismatic’, dominant, celebrity and hugely resourceful politicians, who probably intentionally shun any semblance of intellectualized positioning and are almost surely among the most ‘reactionary’ geniuses. Why? Primarily because, politics all over the globe has shaped up in a way, which weeds out intellectuals with receptive and holistic perspectives, buoying up those few, who have the genius of ingenuity to work up a ‘nexus’, to ride over the reactionary populist mindsets of the teeming millions. Politics over the years have shaped up as the highest academy for learning the ‘art’ of legitimizing hypocrisies as ‘Ultimate Reality’ for masses.
In plain and simple terms, the politicians, who rule the masses, probably have the only eligibility of being the giants of populism, which in modern world has the basis in abstract and precarious elements of success. These handful of hypocritical and otherwise precariously-eligible politicians have the unfettered authority to decide what they stupidly feel is ‘The Reality’ and then lead the billions of men and women towards them. And, this stark stupidity is the mainstream culture of modern humanity even in 21st century, which definitively unfurls before us as the age of reason, logic and scientific precision. This dualism is getting starker every passing day.
What we are talking about is essentially this single theme that when we are not sure of the very cause and nature of a trouble or problem, we cannot have a genuine solution of it. In such a situation, it gives occasion to a hell lot of opportunistic elements to put up their fancy shops of populist solutions, full of shiny and luscious abstractions and virtuality. The ‘solution-hawkers’ of politics and governance do have charismatic appeal to what they sell but what we buy, shall never be what we ‘need’ as it shall always be what we ‘want’. And, we all know, what we want is not always what we need.
This prolific human business of ‘solution-hawking’ has continued since ages and has been the root element of most troubles of humanity till date. Alongside politics, the psychology and spiritualism are also vying to become the sizeable stakeholder in ‘solution-hawking’ territory. There was probably no way out of this tragedy because, there never was an occasion before humanity to scientifically understand what the singular, objective and measurable basis of Reality was. The collective human knowledge is still divided over the issue of Reality but science in 21st century definitely has a firm and decisive grip on the singular mechanism and process of how Reality is engendered. Contemporary human wisdom has so successfully understood the final utility of Holism of Reality. Therefore, now humanity has no choice but to discontinue with all abstractions and vagueness, which uploads huge amount of stupidities and hypocrisies and allows ‘populism’ to rule us.
The modern age and collective human knowledge of ‘Reality’ leaves no role for the stupidities and hypocrisies of contemporary politics and governments. They now have to log out and give way to scientists and experts, who have to first complete the much wanted agenda of integration and holism of all fields of human knowledge and then install a novel singular, objective, measurable and verifiable model of mind training and academic learning for all, so that the core and critical trouble of human consciousness design is corrected. It shall also design the new constitution for politics and governance of the people.
There are countless examples of how contemporary politicians and governments are ruining the lives of billions of people by their hypocrisies, stupidities and unscientific-subjective perceptions about Reality. In this eBook, we certainly do not want to list them in details as it shall create its own bulk and deviate us from the core and more focused agenda of deliberating about the alternative model for humanity, which shall lead to we the people ‘Getting Our Crown Back’. Still, just for the sake of clarity about how political and governmental hypocrisies as well as abstractions are annihilating sanity and system of human world, we shall list a few important ones.
The most glaring example of stupid hypocrisy of politics and governments as well as a shining instance of how ‘Populist Reality’, mired in abstraction and mysticism is being dished out to billions of unsuspecting people is the contemporary brouhaha over Terrorism. Globally, most politicians and governments are making people buy this ‘Populist Reality’ that terrorism, especially the ‘identity-based’ terrorism of a specific community is the enemy number one of humanity. This ‘