In Search of a Messiah

There is a method of control in place employed by the establishment known as the Great Man vs the Bogeyman. Following the Hegelian Dialectic, the State creates a problem - in this case, the Bogeyman: an object of revulsion and fear that will destroy and kill and harm. Next follows the reaction from the mob: panic, anxiety, confusion, uncertainty: "What is to be done?!" Finally, the State, which created the bogeyman in the first place, steps in and says, "I will save you. Give me more money and more power; surrender your freedom and I will protect you from this new threat."

Generations and generations of this assault on our minds have indoctrinated many of us to seek out the Great Man - the savior, the messiah - even in a misguided attempt to increase their freedom. It doesn't occur to them that seeking the Great Man is precisely the manner in which we've found ourselves in this horrible predicament. Government has used fear of the Bogeyman for every usurpation of wealth and power in its history, and in America we've seen how it turned the most minimalist government ever into the grotesque Leviathan (if this offends you, compile a list of anything you can do without paying government for permission, and leave it in the comments) we live under today, where the laws are so numerous and vaguely worded it is literally impossible not to break them. 

An adage I've resonated strongly with goes something like, "The master's tools will never destroy the master's house." When you come to a complete, honest, unapologetic understanding of where we are and how we've arrived here, the idea of using political means to erase generations of political ends is seen as the absurdity that it is. The Great Man is a spook. A phantom. It doesn't exist. 

The tragedy of Ron Paul is that, though his intentions were, I assume, good (the road to hell and all that), he hoodwinked people into thinking some good could be achieved through the political means. We are often fooled into believing that because a method worked - and Ron Paul is a statistically insignificant exception to this rule: the overwhelming majority of politicians are scum - that it is or can be a moral and effective way to affect change. Here is why this is absurd (besides all of modern human history): you have consented to the outcome, for good or ill. Even if I run on a platform to leave you alone, it still assumes that someone else has the right to run on a platform to control everything you do. So even if you vote for Jesus Christ, if Satan gets elected, complain about it all you want - you are responsible; you consented to that outcome. 

They say if you don't vote you have no right to complain; the exact opposite is true. And do not allow anyone to tell you that not participating in politics is the same as doing nothing. Politics is neither a moral nor an effective method of ordering society, and I for one have faith in the smartest being in the known universe to order himself without the use of violence.

People searching for the Messiah will never be free.