PROEM & POEM No. 113 - Solomon's Ecclesiastical Slip / Part 5
Once any stateless society throughout history created a state of any framework upon any motive, ideology or ism, the same society was forever cursed with government. Thereafter the unavoidable chaos between every fall and rise of governments were not a return to the original civil statelessness, rather indicative of the pathological codependency as abusively instilled thus psychologically scarred by decades or centuries of political subjection even subjugation to tyranny, monarchy, oligarchy even parliamentary and democracy. It has yet been observed such a civil return other than remnants of societies emigrating to nearby or distant lands beyond the practical or actual reach of governments' oppression, only to duplicate the declination upon establishing a new state or adjoining to an extant state, per some naive notion or shortsighted objective. For an odd psychosis often germs and spreads among the people as well polity, passed on from generation to generation as though some genetic deformity per government’s inherent toxicity, each hoping in pathetic earnest for different outcomes by repeating past efforts in greater measure.
This was true long before the Hebrew kingdoms, so it was not surprising for the prophet and priest Samuel (1000 BCE +/-) to empirically, logically warn (1 Sa 8:17) prior to anointing their first king Saul, ominously concluding with the inevitable outcome thus relentless curse; and ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the Lord will not hear you in that day (1 Sa 8:18), and so it was then and since.
If willing to read Samuel’s entire warning documented in the first book of Samuel of the Biblical Old Testament, chapter 8, verses 11 through 18, one would not find anything startlingly revealing nor mystically intriguing, rather, characteristics common of every government in history. Differences among government are duly noted merely in breadth and depth of political force executed therefore the biblically implied policies, laws, regulations, taxes, confiscations, etc. For what government have not covetously, presumptuously hence forcefully recruited and mustered, worked and taxed, confiscated and plundered, schooled and drilled, regulated and manipulated, incarcerated and terminated their own people and/or people of other governments, with much arbitrariness, complexity, inconsistency combined with tenacity, velocity even atrocity, monstrosity.
As traditionally written by the prophet and priest Samuel, and historically commissioned for translation by King James IV and I, the text applicably reminds now as it imperatively cautioned then. This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots. And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots. And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers. And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants. And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants. And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work. He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants. And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the Lord will not hear you in that day. And so the ancient warning remains as it was since first written; unknown, unfamiliar, unexplained, unrecognized or worst, arrogantly unheeded.
This was true long before the Hebrew kingdoms, so it was not surprising for the prophet and priest Samuel (1000 BCE +/-) to empirically, logically warn (1 Sa 8:17) prior to anointing their first king Saul, ominously concluding with the inevitable outcome thus relentless curse; and ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the Lord will not hear you in that day (1 Sa 8:18), and so it was then and since.
If willing to read Samuel’s entire warning documented in the first book of Samuel of the Biblical Old Testament, chapter 8, verses 11 through 18, one would not find anything startlingly revealing nor mystically intriguing, rather, characteristics common of every government in history. Differences among government are duly noted merely in breadth and depth of political force executed therefore the biblically implied policies, laws, regulations, taxes, confiscations, etc. For what government have not covetously, presumptuously hence forcefully recruited and mustered, worked and taxed, confiscated and plundered, schooled and drilled, regulated and manipulated, incarcerated and terminated their own people and/or people of other governments, with much arbitrariness, complexity, inconsistency combined with tenacity, velocity even atrocity, monstrosity.
As traditionally written by the prophet and priest Samuel, and historically commissioned for translation by King James IV and I, the text applicably reminds now as it imperatively cautioned then. This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots. And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots. And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers. And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants. And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants. And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work. He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants. And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the Lord will not hear you in that day. And so the ancient warning remains as it was since first written; unknown, unfamiliar, unexplained, unrecognized or worst, arrogantly unheeded.
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Thy dung forthcoming amongst the dearth thus mounting
Upon Hell’s bells so rung as pyres `yond lack accounting
Hearths cold, berths shoaled, steely eyes by strangleholds
O’er podiums then lecterns perpetuating penuries tenfold
Upon Hell’s bells so rung as pyres `yond lack accounting
Hearths cold, berths shoaled, steely eyes by strangleholds
O’er podiums then lecterns perpetuating penuries tenfold
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Come let us Reason. Peace is always a Choice.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.
Study, Ponder, Labor, till last Breath.
Copyright © 2019 by D.C. Quillan Stone
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