Spontaneous order, also known as freedom, is the highest level of a political pyramid of needs. These needs are: peace, security, law, and freedom. To advance order, always work for the next step – without skipping steps. In a state of war, advance toward peace; in a state of insecurity, advance toward security; in a state of security, advance toward law; in a state of law, advance toward freedom.
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the assumption that all security problems, in all cases, can be resolved by the use of rights-preserving judicial procedures, is entirely unwarranted.
Source: Uncommon Reservations
- One characteristic of modern societal structure that has been teasing at the edge of my mind for a while is the poor match of our legal violence to the above hierarchy of needs.
- Nation states today have an army, for resolving issues of war. The also have a police force, for resolving issues of law-breaking.
- Neither of these forces is intended to function to resolve or resist breakdown in societal order.
- Moreover, application of either force to the maintenance of societal order is an entrenched taboo. One direction takes you to a police state, the other a military regime — both anathema to the Cathedral governed state.
- That such a force does not exist within a Cathedral state implies that such a force cannot coexist with a Cathedral state.
- Were such a force to emerge organically, it would shortly be assaulted by the internal forces of the Cathedral state; first the police, then the army.
- Were such a force to emerge at the instigation of an Outer party — even the notion of such a force — it would shortly be assaulted by the Cathedral directly.
- Were either to be victorious internally, I cannot see but that international sanctions and then war would result.
- The inverse of such forces should, and do, emerge organically due to the function of the Cathedral. Their empowerment, at the instigation of the Inner Party, accelerates the approach of the singularity.
The Order Force
- In non-Cathedral nations — in both time and place — forces that utilise legal violence to reinforce the existing order are and were present.
- Even in Cathedral nations, one doesn’t have to step too far back in history to discover these.
- In states without separation of powers, these forces were sometimes located under the auspices of the church, other times under the state directly, other times as times existing as mid-level powers outside of the sovereign’s direct control.
- Residual portions of these have been actively eliminated by the Cathedral.
- Any order force implicitly imposes atrocity; more so that is its primary function.
- An order force imposes community standards. This can step up from implicit pressure to conform, to explicit instruction to do so, to exemplary violence — neither condoned by nor hindered by the state, to state imposed violence, to exile or death.
- An order force actively resists any attempts to establish alternative orders. They are the response to both organised crime, and organised revolution.
The paradox
- Any community wishing to establish a basis that is non-Cathedral requires an order force.
- Any community wishing to co-exist with the Cathedral may not posses an order force.
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