Friday, April 18, 2014

Mosiah 29

(March 14, 2014)
This chapter is an absolutely perfect primer on good (and bad) government.  Everything that Mosiah talks about in this chapter should be required reading for civics textbooks.  The most amazing thing about all of it is that it isn’t about politics at all.  The system of kings that was being replaced and the system of judges that was replacing it barely resemble the democratic republic we operate under today.  At first glance there might be resemblances, but upon careful examination they fade away.

No, the reason why Mosiah is able to so aptly describe politics is that he isn’t talking about politics at all.  He is speaking of human nature, and applying that nature to politics.  Big government fails because iniquitous people aspire to leadership in big government, and from their they use corruption to solidify their power.  Washington might not have a king, but it certainly has enough bureaucratic warlords that the language is very appropriate.

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