To want anarchy is to want actions without consequence, to want what never was nor can ever be. It is chaos without the hope derived of order and law…
To want anarchy is to want actions without consequence, to want what never was nor can ever be. It is chaos without the hope derived of order and law. Scientifically we know that actions and reactions (consequences) are inseparable. Anarchy then, may never know freedom.
There has been much call for anarchy lately in the alternative economic media. The call is often mislabeled as a desire for “free” markets. “Free” meaning absent any intervention, direction, or compulsion whatsoever. The retort from socialists is always that no truly free market can ever escape the fate of plutocracy, monopoly etc. hence economies must be managed. But that assertion confuses “free” with anarchy and seeks to forever destine man to living under the nanny state.
Anarchy never was, and never will be freedom. It wants what can never be, consequence-less choices.
Freedom is the realm of law and order.
What then is freedom? Is control just incremental as the political scales illustrate as a fade from far right anarchy to far left despotism?
NO!
Natural order and law defines a straight and narrow path of choice. It is the path of beneficial consequences as a result of correct choices. Freedom is the complete enabling of those choices. All blessings (beneficial consequences) are predicated upon obedience to that law unto which that blessing is affixed.
Given that choice and consequence are inextricably linked, freedom then cannot be viewed as escape from consequence, but rather adherence to the laws that maximize benefit.
Freedom has to be obedience to natural law.
Ah! Kill joy! That is so limiting! Surely no fun can come of that! Surely freedom comes in right and wrong choices!
Ah contraire! Think of flight. Flight does not come by flaunting gravity, but rather by adherence to the principles of drag and lift which may or may not over power gravity. This is the natural order and law. Herein is the freedom of flight. Without right choices here, things deteriorate quickly.
Miracles are simply a (possibly not understood) higher law over powering a lower law. Such is the miracle of flight. Miracles by nature tend to overcome limitations and thus contribute to freedom.
Natural law is the domain of freedom as is the natural order. What is this natural order?
The natural order is seen in the patterns around us. It is the illustration of purpose, the why of natural law.
Life is progression and order dictates progression in the same way order is required in a factory. Our factory is the life factory, the exaltation factory. Without order, the natural law becomes the pointless tyranny of a fish bowl god that spurs anarchists to defy it. With order the natural law embodies exalting freedom.
Anarchy is a random stabbing around in the dark without an end in mind,. It is the nuts and bolts of scientology wherein the mind dictates action and then chooses a consequence to link to it. It is delusion and mental incompetence.
Governments and economies likewise cannot be exalted by anarchy (attempting to assert consequence to action) but only by adhering to the true exalting path of freedom.
“A time and a place for everything” No space where there is no law.
All of this begs the questions of application. Is enforcement a principle of freedom in natural law and/or order? The short answer is yes, all things have their consequences. But the long answer illustrates that God is the head of all and an integral part to the natural law and order and He dictates enforcement of His law, the natural law, of His order, the natural order, to man. He is inseparable from it. That may sound like the “God is in everything” environmentalist dribble that has people worshiping the mother earth, but in reality it is much different because it is factual and specific.
The question then becomes, what does the natural law and natural order teach us? What is it's proper enforcement? What are the limits to agency?
If we could see the order imposed by God (and we can and do) then we would know to attribute all order to God.
Truly then the “natural” law is better labeled God's law, and the “natural” order, God's order.
It is fundamental to the creation that God organized chaotic matter by law into the beauty we now see in the law and order we see.
Of course men have muddied that up!
“The First Thing You Know” as sung by Lee Marvin in the movie musical “Paint You Wagon.”Â
“God made the mountains
God made the sky
God made the people
God knows why
“He fixed up the planet
As best as He could
Then in come the people
And gum it up good
“The first thing you know
“They civilized the foothills
And everywhere 'E put hills
The mountains and valleys below
“They come along and take ‘em
And civilize and make ‘em
A place where no civilized
Person would go
“The first thing you know
The first thing you know
“They civilize what’s pretty
By puttin’ up a city
Where nothin’ that’s
Pretty can grow
“They muddy up the winter
And civilize it, into a place
Too uncivilized
Even for snow
“The first thing you know
“They civilize left
They civilize right
Till nothing is left
Till nothing is right
“They civilize freedom
Till no one is free
No one except
By coincidence, me
“The first thing you know
“The boozer’s in prison
And the criminally isn’t
And only the rascals have dough
“When I see a parson
I gotta put my arse'in
A wagon that follows the tail of a crow
“The first thing you know
I pick up and blow
The first thing you know”Â
Man in asserting the childish principles of Anarchy or a chaotic (satanic) order has really made a wreck of things.
Thus the Adamic command to “subdue it” We are instructed to restore the natural law and order and to restore “all as at first.” Unto Adam was given the law, “you broke it, you fix it.” Through mercy of the atonement we are forgiven, but we must do all that we can to bring about restitution. Adam still has a work to do receiving the keys to the repaired vehicle and turning them back over to their rightful owner.
Enoch did his bit! We must do ours in like manner. We must do so in the true freedom found in strict adherence to the true natural laws in the natural order derived from God. It is the only way.
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Jeremy is a husband and father first and foremost. He has devoted his life to not getting his priorities out of line. He has made himself and his family the Jacks of all trades. Jeremy invites you to take the good and leave the bad; better yet to move the ball forward and fix any deficiencies there might be in his work. Truth should stand on it\’s own merits and not on his.
