With regards to beliefs in governance there are three types of people. The first group believes in the inherent superiority of some individuals, and hence their right to govern.   The second group is a group too preoccupied, too indifferent, too fatalistic, too lazy, or too stupid to care.  The third believes that it is superior or has rights to govern, and indeed governance is inherently evil, and while it maybe necessary it is dangerous.

The second group believes that some people are inherently superior to others and therefore have the right to lead. It is a remnant of our evolution from the primordial slime.  You see the common threads throughout the animal kingdom, in the herds and packs.  In mankind it manifests itself in terms of tyrants, dictators, kings & queens, emperors.   In all of these forms of governance, the rulers are deemed to superior to the governed.  In these many of the governed hold the same belief and I dare say in most cases rulers govern with at the least the implicit support of the governed.  In all societies there is a point were the governed will change the ruler (or the system) if it becomes too abusive.  It may take a lot of time (years, decades, centuries); perhaps a lot of blood, but it will eventually happen.  That is why no empire lasts forever.   Yes, at the end of the day the people grant the ruler the power to rule.  It is physics, an immutable law.  The segment of mankind that believes this is not small, it is perhaps a majority (planet-wide), and is deeply entrenched, even in the United States.  Witness the absolute fawning over European royalty, can any one say Princess Grace, Princess Diana, or Camelot.  Do understand that many support it, because Kings and Dictators, Premiers and Presidents, all need a supporting cast, i.e. ministers, advisors, governors, administrators,  bureaucrats, soldiers, contributors, news people, etc.  They all derive their piece of power from the ruler.  This dispersal of power gives a broad base of vested interest in the status quo.  Many of the governed, falling into the second class, are all to willing to accept it. 

It is worthy of note that I am not talking about the “type” of government.  The type of government is somewhat irrelevant.  Does the government exist to serve the people or do the people exist to serve the government.  Be careful how others can twist this concept, all the rulers (and their minions) will all claim they serve their people, but in reality they view the people as serving them. 

The third group believes that no man in the eyes of God, government, or law is inherently superior, and that all men are endowed with equality therein.  That government and those in government serve only at the grace of and for the governed.  They believe that they are responsible for their own actions and that others are responsible for their own actions. 

Each of us belongs in one of these three groups, although it may take a lot of thought and introspection to clear all the years of muck and mud which covers our true selves.   The rest of our views are the fruits of the core belief to which we adhere.

You might ask yourself in which group do you belong.  If you have no idea about what I am talking about, then you belong to the second group.  If you fawn over celebrity,  have heart-ache over the loss of Princess Diana or John Kennedy Jr.,  yearn for the return of Camelot to The White House; pay a lobbyist to petition the government to increase the length of copyright protection while wailing about the high-cost of Viagra; or want energy independence while you protest the construction of a power plant,  if you usually find that all the ills and evils that befall you and others are someone else’s fault, then you probably belong in the to the first group.  

If you do not bow at the alter of celebrity, if you believe the White House is a working residence and not a castle;  if you find the endless prattling about the goings on of the royal family annoying, or understand that it takes a power plant to run your TV, then you probably belong to third group.

In case you haven’t figured it out, this website is written for members of the third group.