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The angry god that arose in early
civilizations
is also linked to the
concept of good
and evil
and the concept of sin.
The corn is
good, the weeds are evil.
The bees are good,
the locusts evil.
The sheep are good, the
wolves evil.
Technology overcomes
nature by promoting
the good and
controlling the evil.
As for nature, so also for
human nature.
The self is divided into two parts, a good part and a
evil part, the latter of which we overcome with the
controlling technologies of culture."
-
Charles
Eisenstein
"When
the State enjoins something good, it undoes and spoils
it precisely because the latter comes in the form of a
command, and because every
command provokes and arouses the
legitimate revolt of freedom; and also because, from
the point of view of true morality, of human and not divine morality, the good which is done by
command from above ceases to be good and
thereby becomes evil. Liberty, morality,
and the humane dignity of man consist precisely in that man does good not
because he is ordered to do so, but because he conceives it, wants it, and
loves it."
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"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly,
while
bad people will find a way around the
laws." – Plato
Good is
defined as:
Excellent.
The
real truth.
Valid or
true.
Genuine; real.
Reliable; sure.
Of high
quality.
Discriminating.
Loyal; staunch.
Benevolent
categorically.
Morally admirable.
Ample;
substantial.
Competent;
skilled.
Pleasant; enjoyable.
Of moral
excellence.
Complete; thorough.
Capable of
pleasing.
Propitious; favorable.
Attractive; handsome.
Agreeable or
pleasing.
Appealing to the mind.
Superior
to the average.
Socially correct;
proper.
Well-behaved; obedient.
Able to pay or
contribute.
Fair; honorable;
unsullied.
Admirable; commendable.
In excellent condition;
sound.
Worthy of respect;
honorable.
Of
moral excellence; upright.
Beneficial to
health; salutary.
Possessing desirable qualities.
In excellent
physical condition.
Deserving of esteem and respect.
Promoting or
enhancing well-being.
Able to elicit a specified
reaction.
Adapted to answer the
end designed.
Able to continue in a specified activity.
Adequate; sufficient; competent; sound.
Clever;
skillful; dexterous; ready;
handy.
With or in a close or
intimate relationship.
Promoting
success, welfare, or
happiness.
Feeling healthy and
free of aches and
pains.
Most suitable or
right for a particular
purpose.
Having pecuniary
ability; of unimpaired credit.
Having or
showing knowledge and skill
and aptitude.
Being positive or desirable
in nature; not bad or
poor.
Not small,
insignificant, or of no account; considerable.
Serviceable; suited; adapted; suitable; of use; to be relied
upon.
Possessing moral excellence or
virtue; virtuous; pious; religious.
Used to
form exclamatory phrases
expressing surprise or dismay.
Having the qualities that
are desirable or distinguishing in a particular thing.
Advancement of interest or
happiness; welfare; prosperity; advantage; benefit.
Landing
within bounds or
within a particular area of a
court and therefore in play.
In a
commercial
sense, to be depended on for the discharge of
obligations incurred.
Not fallacious,
bad, corrupt,
spoiled, ruined,
evil, blemished,
noxious, offensive, deficient.
Used formerly to refer to the
American government grade of
meat higher than standard and lower
than choice.
That which possesses desirable qualities, promotes
success, welfare, or happiness and is
humane, merciful, gracious,
polite, propitious, friendly.
"A
good man, is a
good man, whether in
this church, or out of it." - Brigham Young
"You have to hand it to
America. It has exercised a quite clinical
manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for
universal good."
- Harold Pinter, winner of 2005
Nobel Prize for Literature
goods"The
use of the word "goods" to denote the salable products of human activity
reveals some very deep assumptions.
First, harking back to agriculture,
it suggests that goodness comes from human manipulation of nature and not from
nature itself. A good is something produced, extracted from its original place
in the ground, the water, or the forest and then subjected to other forms of
processing. Unimproved, nature is not good. Oil in the ground or a forest left
standing are invisible to economic accounting: they are not yet "goods", just
as unpaid mothering is not yet a "service".
A second implication is
that if something is good, it can be assigned a price—commoditized,
bought, and sold. Got that? Our definition of a "good" is that it is exchanged
for money.
Money = Good.
That some good things are not yet
commodities merely means that the conversion of social, cultural, spiritual,
and natural capital is not yet complete—good news for anyone but an
economist. From the economist's point of view, the equation of economic growth
with more and more "goods" adds a note of moral imperative to the quest for
economic growth." - Charles Eisenstein
"The state then is the most flagrant negation, the
most cynical and complete negation of humanity. It rends apart the universal
solidarity of all men upon earth, and it unites some of them only in order to
destroy, conquer, and enslave all the rest. It takes under its protection only
its own citizens, and it recognizes human right, humanity, and civilization
only within the confines of its own boundaries. And since it does not recognize
any right outside of its own confines, it quite logically arrogated to itself
the right to treat with the most ferocious inhumanity all the foreign
populations whom it can pillage, exterminate, or subordinate to its will. If it
displays generosity or humanity toward them, it does it in no case out of any
sense of duty: and that is because it has no duty but to itself, and toward
those of its members who formed it by an act of free agreement, who continue
constituting it on the same free bases, or, as it happens in the long run, have
become its subjects.
Every State, whether it is of a federative or a
non-federative character, must seek, under the penalty of utter ruin, to become
the most powerful of States. It has to devour others in order not to be
devoured in turn, to conquer in order not to be conquered, to enslave in order
not to be enslaved - for two similar and at the same time alien powers, cannot
co-exist without destroying each other." - Mikhail Bakunin"No one,
and least of all those who are concerned with reform, will maintain that the
human race has as yet reached the Promised Land. The evidence is all against
it. Man has done a lot in accumulating a knowledge of things in general, but he
seems incapable of ridding himself of the need of a golden calf. He still
yearns for "gods which will go before us," gods that are uninhibited by the
laws of nature, gods that are accountable only to our appetites, gods that
speak not of consequences or the long run. In that respect we are like the Jews
in the wilderness.
Witness the pervasive religion of our times, the
worship of the State.
Is not the State an idol?
Is it not like
any graven image into which men have read supernatural powers and superhuman
capacities?
The State can feed us when we are hungry, heal us when we
are ill; it can raise wages and lower prices, even at the same time; it can
educate our children without cost; it can provide us against the contingencies
of old age and amuse us when we are bored; it can give us electricity by
passing laws and improve the game of baseball by regulation.
What
cannot the State do for us if only we have faith in it? And we have faith.
No creed in the history of the world ever captured the hearts and minds
of men as has the modern creed of Statism. Men may differ in their rituals,
they may call themselves Americans, Englishmen or Russians (New Dealers,
Socialists or Communists), but in their adherence to the doctrine of the
omnipotence of the State they are as one. It is the universal religion. There
may be some who maintain the State is a false god, that it is
powerless in the face of natural law,
incapable of doing anything the individual cannot do for himself, and is in
fact a hindrance to man in his effort toward self-improvement; but such
dissidents from the norm are few indeed.
From New York to Moscow to
Peiping, and all way stations between, men pay homage to the State. It is a
universal passion equal in intensity, but much larger in scope, to the spirit
of the Crusades.
As for the substance of this religion of Statism, the
absolute upon which its theology is based, it is that political power can do
anything. There is no limitation upon its scope, except a contrary and more
potent political power.
Of a certainty, say its theologians, there are
no "natural laws" to hamstring the State; that is a well-exploded myth of the
dark ages. We have seen, they declare, how through the use of force every
so-called immutable consequential relationship has been made mutable and
inconsequential. All things are relative. There are no certainties, either in
the nature of man or the nature of the world.
In fact, there is no
nature.
Whatever men set their hearts on doing that will be done,
provided only that they put their collective powers to the job. And whatever
the collective powers of men accomplish, that is "good," simply because it
"works."
The religion of Statism is thoroughly pragmatic; sufficient
unto the day is the accomplishment thereof.
The State is the true god,
its votaries maintain, because it is immortal. Men come and go, the State lives
on.
The priesthood who tend it may be Republicans or Democrats or
what-not; the State outlasts them all. It is self-sufficient because it is
sovereign, omniscient because it has an intelligence superior to the combined
intelligence of all men, beyond censure because its morality transcends that by
which mere man lives. It is not a social contract, not the product of a body of
laws which men make and unmake. It can say, as the God of the Bible said of
Himself: "I Am."
Yet, the State does not say that, or anything else,
for it is in fact only a golden calf. We who worship the fiction endow it with
superhuman gifts and capacities by merely demanding of it accomplishments that
presuppose such gifts and capacities.
It is good because we want it to
be.
Out of the fervency of our prayers comes the State.
Were we
to take the trouble to examine the product of our imagination, we would find
the State to be only a body of men who, taking advantage of our weakness, make
the best of it. They promise; because of our self-deception, we do not question
their ability to make good; nor do we take notice of the contingent clause
accompanying the promise, that we give them power over our persons and our
property.
Because they are human, because they, too, are incapable of
defying or circumventing the laws of nature, they cannot do for us what we
cannot do for ourselves, and their promise is never fulfilled; but, the power
they have acquired is not relinquished. Thus, the State consists of a body of
men who, by virtue of our need for a golden calf, acquire the power to compel
us to do what we do not want to do." - Frank
Chodorov
See Jesus
See God
See Revelation
See
The Golden Rule
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