Lesson 2

Human Government:
Chaos and Conflict

Thomas Paine told us that human government is not the cause of peace and good order in society. He told us government is actually the cause of conflict, misery and disorder. Thomas Jefferson told us that it is our God-given right to pursue happiness which means life without government. More recently another man told us much the same thing.

Butler D. Shaffer is a professor at Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles. In his book, Calculated Chaos, we read in Chapter One, Our Well Organized Conflicts:

Briefly stated, the basic theme of this book is that institutions are the principal by which conflict is produced and managed in society. Peace is incompatible with institutional activity. Stated another way, the success of institutions depends upon the creation of those conditions in which personal and social conflict will flourish.

Through these groupings, we have helped to institutionalize conflict, to make it a seemingly permanent and necessary feature of human society. Such conflict has not resulted from mere accident or inadvertence, nor has it been the product of vicious or depraved minds. Rather, for reasons to be developed herein, conflict is a condition upon which the health and well-being of institutions is absolutely dependent. We have made an industry of human suffering and violence, the members of which have been institutions under the management of generally good and well-intentioned people. Through a variety of forms, we have put together very sophisticated organizational machinery for human manipulation, control and inflicted pain. We have systematized conflict and discontent, have spilled the blood of hundreds of millions of our fellows, and tortured and oppressed hundreds of millions more. We have formalized the practices that violate even our most relaxed standards of decent and responsible human conduct, and have loosed up human society a nearly universal spirit of fear, distrust, and animosity toward one another.

Every institution is a racket. Whether we are considering political, religious, economic, ideological, or educational institutions...

(He is talking about government, churches, banks and schools. The schools I went to and the one you are going to. He means the Russian government, the Iranian government, and government in America.)

...each is a formal, elaborate system designed for one purpose: To control people. Each seeks to persuade or compel individuals to divert their energies from the pursuit of private, personal objectives... (That's the same as the pursuit of happiness, a right given to us by our Creator.) ...and to dedicate themselves to organizational purposes.

A major contributing factor to the conflict, misery, and disorder existing among people throughout the world has been our willingness to allow institutions to dominate our lives, to control and direct almost every facet of human activity, including our relationships with other people. We live our lives in unquestioning subservience to the demand of institutions, allowing them to pre-empt our own purposes and decision making in favor of their self-serving priorities.

My teachers never gave me a lesson on these things. Neither will yours. School is an institution and largely responsible for the chaos in society. If parents and children knew this there would soon be no boys and girls in school. Teachers would have no job. Teachers do not want to know anything about why there is chaos in society. Teachers want all children in their schools because then they get lots and lots of money. If you tell teachers, or most grown-ups that schools and governments and banks and churches are making things in the world worse, they won't listen to you because they like money very much. They would rather believe a lie than give up all that money.

Sometimes when children stay at home, teachers send the police to put their mom and dad in jail. This is part of the conflict, misery and disorder that schools cause. See if you can find where we now are on the spectrum of government:

Man's Rule (Chaos, conflict)

God's Rule (Peace, Good order)

Teachers can teach you many good things, but not everything they tell you is true. Anything a teacher can teach you in school you can learn even better at home and in much less time. I know two little girls about your age here in Idaho who have never gone to school. They stay at home and learn in about two hours a day. They are doing much better than children in school. Plus, they are learning to play the violin and piano, and learning gymnastics and Tae Kwon Do. And, their parents are teaching them that God is America's king. That's the most important lesson!

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