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And Here is A Video With Part Two Of The Conversation :)
: An Alien craft soft lands in a hapless human's back yard...the
: human goes outside to investigate, and we listen in...
: H: Hey, an alien!
: A: Yes, I have traveled across space to check on the progress
: of your species.
: H: Cool. Shall I take you to our leader?
: A: Your what?
: H: Our leader - the guy in charge.
: A: The guy in charge of what?
: H: Well, in charge of everything.
: A: You have one guy in charge of everything?
: H: No, no, he’s in charge of government.
: A: What is government?
: H: Well, government makes the rules for us. It tells us what
: we can do and what we can’t do.
: A: So government is really smart? They come up with wise rules
: for you to follow?
: H: Well mostly, but some of its rules are really stupid.
: A: Do you disregard those rules?
: H: No, we have to follow the rules, even if they are stupid,
: or we disagree with them. Government punishes anyone who
: disobeys the rules.
: A: So you are slaves to government?
: H: No, no, no, it’s not like that at all. Government works for
: us, the people. It serves us. We’re the boss.
: A: It tells you what to do, and it punishes you with violence
: if you disobey it, and yet you’re its boss?
: H: Yeah.
: A: But there are some things government does that you don’t
: like?
: H: Well, yeah, not everything government does is popular. Like
: spending on wars, for example.
: A: What is a war?
: H: It’s when government basically spends the peoples’ money on
: weapons and soldiers, and then sends them over to the other
: side of the world to kill a bunch of people over there and
: destroy their country. I don’t like it that government does
: this.
: A: Well I can see why you might not like that. Have you humans
: reached the stage where you generally consider stealing,
: enslaving and killing each other to be bad things?
: H: Oh yeah, we know that. Don’t steal. Don’t attack. Don’t
: assault.
: A: But you give money to government and they use it to kill
: people.
: H: Well yeah, but government does good things with tax money
: as well.
: A: Why don’t you stop paying for the things you don’t like and
: only pay for the good things it does?
: H: No, we can’t do that. You can’t just decide to stop paying
: taxes, because the rules say that everyone has to pay
: taxes.
: A: But the rules come from government though, don’t they?
: H: Yeah.
: A: So government made a rule which says that everyone has to
: pay them money? So everybody pays taxes because if they
: didn’t, government would punish them using violence?
: H: Well yes, but most people don’t mind paying taxes; most
: people feel obligated to pay taxes and obey government
: laws, because it’s for the good of society. Society needs
: government, and that means we all have to pay taxes.
: A: So just to make sure I’ve got this straight. Government
: makes the rules and you feel obligated to follow the rules,
: even the ones you don’t like, and it tells you what to do,
: and threatens to punish you if you don’t do what it says.
: And it uses some of the money that it has taken from you
: using threats of violence to pay for things you don’t like
: and actually think are immoral, like mass murder.
: H: Yeah, but we can ask it to please tell us to do smart
: things, and please don’t take our money and use it to kill
: people. We’re allowed to ask them to tell us to do what we
: want them to tell us to do.
: A: Are you guys just scared of this thing? Is government some
: huge monster that can just squish you at any moment if you
: disobey?
: H: No, government isn’t a monster.
: A: Well what is it then? Could you draw me a picture of it?
: H: Government isn’t really the sort of thing you can draw a
: picture of.
: A: Maybe you could take me to it. Where is government?
: H: You mean the building?
: A: Government is a building?
: H: No, but the politicians who make up the government have
: buildings they work from.
: A: So government is a group of these politicians?
: H: Yeah.
: A: OK, so what species are these politicians?
: H: Well they’re… human.
: A: Like you?!
: H: Yeah.
: A: So politicians are humans, and they’re government. You’re a
: human, but you’re not government?
: H: No.
: A: So it’s the politicians, they are the ones that boss the
: rest of you around, and make you do things you don’t want
: to do and take your money using threats of violence. But
: even though you’re all humans – you’re not allowed to boss
: them around and take their money?
: H: No, they’d put us in a cage if we did that. But look, it’s
: not like the politicians can just do whatever they want.
: Like, a politician can’t just come up to me on the street
: and make me give him money. They can’t do that. Politicians
: can only do things like that in their job, when they’re
: working for government.
: A: Oh, so politicians aren’t government. They’re just work for
: government.
: H: Yeah.
: A: OK, so government isn’t a monster, and it isn’t building,
: and its not politicians, it’s something else. And it
: employs politicians who are just regular humans, who get to
: order everyone else around and take their money. How does a
: regular human become a politician?
: H: Well that’s the great thing about our government. It’s a
: democracy, and that means that the people actually have the
: power, because we get to decide who among us get to be the
: politicians, we get to vote. And if a politician starts
: doing things we don’t like, we can just replace him with
: someone else in the next election.
: A: So the people that get chosen to be politicians only get to
: boss people around and take their money for a short time,
: and then they go back to being regular humans?
: H: Exactly.
: A: That sounds like a powerful position to be in. But if you
: get to choose who does that, I assume that politicians are
: always the wisest, most honest, caring and respected people
: among you…
: H: Well, no, not really. I wouldn’t say politicians are known
: for being honest, or wise, or caring, and they’re certainly
: not the most respected people among us. Come to think of
: it, most politicians are lying, power-hungry crooks.
: A: The ones you chose?
: H: Yeah, they’re always doing things we don’t like. They use
: taxpayers’ money to enrich themselves and their friends,
: and they never keep their promises to voters. They’ve been
: caught stealing and lying and taking bribes, and they
: mostly do what the big corporations want. Yeah, they’re
: always doing stuff like that. They’re completely corrupt.
: They’re a bunch of lying crooks.
: A: But you said that most humans know that stealing and
: beating each other up and killing are wrong. And you said
: that you have the power because you can change who’s in
: charge. So why don’t you just replace the lying, thieving,
: murderous crooked politicians with some regular people?
: H: Well we don’t try to elect lying crooks. It just always
: turns out that way. But we have to have a government,
: because some humans are nasty, and might kill, or enslave
: or steal. Civilization just couldn’t survive without
: government.
: A: Let me get this straight. Because you’re worried about the
: small number of nasty people that are willing to kill,
: enslave and steal, you think it’s necessary for your
: survival to have a system where some humans among you, for
: a short while, get to call themselves the government, and
: they get to order everyone else around like slaves and, if
: they want, commit mass murder, using money they stole,
: using threats of violence. Politicians get to kill, enslave
: and steal, because if they didn’t, someone else might? And
: you try to elect good honest people to be politicians but
: what happens every time is that the people you elect turn
: out to be corrupt, evil, lying crooks. That’s your system?
: H: Yeah, that’s pretty much government.