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<\/div>\n<\/div>\nThe Illuminated Pleb<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n “The greatest army in human history was that of Sparta. The reason was very simple. The Spartans removed children from their parents at six years old, placed them in barracks and then trained them relentlessly to be the best soldiers there have ever been.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Here we see the classic example of positive liberty, whereby the State steps into the lives of its citizens to the maximum degree and shapes and directs everything they do. The Spartans soldiers were the total reflection of the State, of its ethos, philosophy and modus operandi.<\/span><\/p>\n To the Spartans, the modern notion of negative liberty, whereby citizens want the State to stay out of their lives as much as possible, would have been incomprehensible.<\/span><\/p>\n True excellence comes only when the State and its citizens are a unity, with identical objectives. That can happen only in positive liberty States. Negative liberty States are fragmented, atomized, full of selfish, egoistic, greedy, self-obsessed citizens with no common purpose. They are all at each other\u2019s throats, pawns in the various scenarios of game theory. Negative liberty goes hand in hand with free-market capitalism, consumerism, and families ruthlessly competing with each other for resources and status.<\/span><\/p>\n Sparta is as far removed from anarchy, libertarianism and free-market capitalism as it\u2019s possible to get. The Spartans will remain vivid in the human memory forever, long after the anarchists, libertarians and free-market capitalists have vanished without a trace from the historical record.<\/span><\/p>\n Excellence can reside in only two places \u2013 individual geniuses who succeed despite the mediocrity of those all around them, and States that harness their human resources to the full to transform them into wonders of the ages.<\/span><\/p>\n Sparta, Athens, and Rome all had active citizens serving the State. In modern capitalist democracies, the only function of the State is to provide the framework in which rich capitalists get richer and the masses indulge in consumerism and escapist fantasies fuelled by technology. In modern States, the interests of the rich are always the top priority. Modern States have no objectives concerning human excellence and the transmutation of the people into gods. The rich have no interest in any such agenda. They are perfectly happy with the way things already are: where they are the gods and everyone else bows down to them.<\/span><\/p>\n Negative liberty, like anarchy and libertarianism, invariably results in rule by rich elites. The world does not have a problem with the power of government and the State. The precise opposite is true. Modern governments and States have had all their power removed by the doctrine of negative liberty and the world is in fact ruled by rich elites relentlessly serving their own selfish agendas, with enfeebled governments and States powerless to stop them. That, of course, is exactly how the rich elites planned things. Their No.1 priority was to destroy the power of the government and the State and they have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.<\/span><\/p>\n All anarchists, libertarians and free-market capitalists who oppose the power of government and the State are the best friends the rich elites have ever had. All of these groups are enemies of the people and outright traitors.<\/span><\/p>\n Only the positive liberty Meritocratic Republic \u2013 with absolute power (\u201cLeviathan\u201d) \u2013 can overcome the rich elites and allow the people to become the best they can be, with the full help of the State and all of its resources.” MH<\/span><\/p>\n
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