2. Three ideas about The State

 

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As sad and less-fortunate as this may be to put into words, we in the modern world live in the age of hunger. Not only do many more than need be live in conditions of physical hunger, but also spiritual hunger, or hunger of the soul; most of all, hunger for "Forbidden Knowledge." 

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Many people don't know Henry George, but Henry George knows you; -if ou eat food and are of our form of monkey-beings who operate in the world as we do, he knows you. Henry George's great idea with which he has silently been moving the world for generations, was that a workman who works for wages should get wages commensurate with his work, and not only well-paid for his labor, but also, get mentally rewarded in kind for his work with the products of his work: in summa, that his wages in cash should not be representative of the dispensation of the boss but actually represent the products of his work. 

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Silvio Gesell, like Henry George, is not as well-known as his knowledge of human nature, not only yours, would indicate. His idea, also simple, is also about the economy. Craftsmen should not be paid for the products of their craft: they should own the products and yet may charge rent for others to use them. This solves a basic question of dignity (- of the craftsman: that his work product is reflective of his person, that it cannot be sold as his person can not be sold, for instance, also, that he is not becoming lesser in stock over time.)

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The third and final idea is about the law. The conspiracy against the very concept of Law is the literary action of the Church. It's known as the episcopacy. Such figures as Harry Vane, who you should know, railed against it and were the righteous. But the importance to the very concept of society For the knowledge that leaves the cloisters of the Church since it has been trapped since the collapse of the ancients, is immense and total. We all need to read and have technique and write and listen, in order to have society and to have Law which allow for society. We need these which are not unlike the Chinese philosophies of Confucianism, Taoism, Mohism, and Legalism (of Han Fei) in order to have society itself. 

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What is society actually as defined this way? This is the long work; the biopolitics... but I would say, most of all, this is the real work I would expect the modern statesman to be obsessed with, work on, and to keep as the eternal basis of his work no matter what new information comes his way. This is the way that the Statesman himself, or the weaver of these fates of society-life; that he keeps as fit as in a state of nature...