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In Nature There Are No Straight Lines
In nature there are no straight lines. The entire notion that we can order our world according to some artificial linear box is absurd. If we look at our daily lives, our families, our work place, our social interactions, nothing conforms to a strict set of rules. An excellent example of this is drawn from my own experience in Cairo.
Anyone who has travelled to Cairo can attest to the fact that their traffic is almost beyond comprehension for a North American. Wide avenues with no lane markers accommodate over 12 lanes of traffic. Though there is a traffic light system, the drivers are completely oblivious to it, and proceed when an ebb in the traffic affords them an opportunity, rather than in conformance with the lights. Miraculously, the traffic moves. It moves far better than it would if everyone were to observe the regulations scrupulously. I have no doubt that should all the drivers be magically replaced by North Americans, the entire city would come to a stand still and very soon there would be a rash of road rage related homicides.
One of the central myths that support our worldview is that we need to be protected by some intervening authority. Otherwise, we are certain to descend into an abyss of chaos, a leviathan of unchecked desires. To this end, we need rules and regulations to ensure that you, me, or that suspicious individual who lives down the lane, does not run amuck. Whenever crime is reported, the knee jerk reaction is to demand new stiffer laws. If it is murder, we call for longer sentences; if it is a financial fraud, such as that which lies behind our current economic fiasco, we call for stiffer regulations for banks and bankers. It rarely dawns on us that a far easier solution would be to simply apply the laws we already have on our books.
For the players, the architects of our perceived need for order, this is ideal. Now, the inmates are not only acquiescent, they are actually helping to police the asylum. Happily, the lawmakers oblige us with the new regulations we are clamouring for. Of course, unbeknownst to us, while we are enjoying our sense of security in knowing that we have a government who responds to our need for law and order to prevail, the noose the players place around our necks grows ever tighter. Now we have the spectre of new regulations to police the investment industry. The radical change which is being proposed is that the banks must retain a minimum 5% ownership in their debt, but they can still sell away the other 95%! Incredibly, even this pitifully inadequate measure is being contested by the lobbying group representing a Wall Street.
The code of law provides yet another example. Legal codes are attempts to translate morality into the current social context in a form, which lends itself to administrative efficiency. At best, they are vague approximations of morality and at their worst; they are brazen attempts to sanctify the status quo. Ironically, the situation is actually inverted; with the laws themselves become the absolutes, against which the morality of a particular action is measured.
The main underlying purpose served by any codes of law is the protection of the property, power and privilege of those in power: the players. There needs to be some semblance of fairness in the laws for the average person to feel morally bound by them. Should this cease to be the case, should the average person come to the conclusion that the laws are for the benefit of the status quo, nothing short of a police state will be needed to maintain order.
When will it stop? When will people finally wake up to the fact that the law, as it is practiced today, are in place to ensure our compliance, rather than to protect our interests.
About the Author John Berling Hardy is author of the e-book "Have We Been
Played?- The Hidden Game Revealed." The insights contained in this series give you the Edge. To find out more about the carefully guarded secret shared by all those who enjoy power and prestige visit Have We Been Played.com.
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