The natural impulse toward Nationhood is always steering toward a learned definition of "the nation." Today's task is to impress upon hearts the only one viable nation -- the whole human life-world. Supplementary to this task is an encouragement for those temporary fantasies of post-nationalism which describe the hinterland between yesterday's regional-ethinic nations and the Grand Planetary Politics of tomorrow.
Dangerous to nations, as to bodies, is the rogue growth of contracted power-knots whose historical regime is called "oligarchical rule." Often the institution of the divine monarch has been the liberating counter-balance to these knots, weilding the symbolic force of The People against the irresponsible acquistiveness of the private dominators. The liberating use of the Emperor is too often occluded by that undeveloped sentimentality of the masses which ignorantly accords an special status to whomever occupies an elevated platform.
Yet monarchy is a primitive mechanism whose ability to constrain social collapse fails in the case of personal corruption or a traumatized populace. So Constitutional Monarchy, and then the Democracy, were developed to inhibit the regression of the social field. These are eminently praiseworthy but our Democracy suffers still the idiocy of "parliamentary team-sports," "one man, one vote," and several other self-crippling mechanisms which inhibit its efficacy. Our duty today is to drive this movement foward, taking advantage of health, education & relative safety as a stage from which to launch new social networking patterns that MUST operate with greater intelligence, vigor and effectiveness than the systems we have inherited.
Truly, people are not ready to govern themselves -- lacking the will, knowledge and capacity to pursue their own satisfaction -- but this goal must hover above all those who advance new teams & new hierarchies which will feed upon the disunity which once appeared as the enemy of governance, and whose authentic social navigators will discern maps in what was anciently deemed to be a loose chaos of competing cultural activities. We must produce that One Nation that is the best factory for growing Free & Potent Persons, and creating networks that do not renounce governance but... exceed it.
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