Monday 3 February 2014

The state is not important

We might think that the state has an obligation to be as democratic as possible but this is not the case since the state has no obligations. To have full democracy is consistent with the concept of the state being aligned with the people but if the people are the state it doesn't matter if they are wrong. The reality is that the state is an arbitrary concept and (as much as we might like it to be real) it is invalid. That is not to say that many of the functions of the state are all illegitimate (such as protecting the peace and preventing crime) but the state as a concept is false and not real. Since the state is not real then it is not inconsistent for the state to use a less than proportional form of democracy... or even no democracy at all. The state doesn't matter so then it doesn't matter what kind of democracy is used. We should ignore the state at all times (unless it is a dangerous threat) and not be concerned if it is democratic or not. The state is never valid since we own ourselves and so then we can have no valid complaint against first-past-the-post and even totalitarianism.

We cannot complain about the nature of the state since the state is not real.

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