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This article appears at lewrockwell.com and is referenced here and pertains to Monarchies. A most interesting facet of the article is how the quality of metal in the imagery used by Daniel is more pure (gold when dealing with the monarchy) when dealing with monarchies as opposed to when dealing with Imperial (Democratic) Rome (feet made of iron/clay).
The Biblical Nature of Hoppean Monarchism
Notice how the Babylonian monarch eventually converted. Traditionally, ancient Babylon and the Mede-Persians allowed their subject peoples to retain their kings, that is, or at least some measure of independence, as opposed to the Romans whose iron fist was given birth by "people's governments" in the form of a Republic or Democracy. This in turn led to not only empire but a desire for absolute world dominance on a [then] global scale. It reminds one of the United States, where it too was founded as a people's government (a republic) which has become so decadent and corrupt that its blatant hypocrisy should probably have become obvious beyond the small multitude of individuals who rightfully recognized it before the advent of the internet.
Granted, my statements are not an endorsement of monarchy per se nor for the ancient kings of the aforementioned kingdoms/empires. However, the Bible does appear to indirectly display the increasingly decadent nature of so-called people's governments wherever they have been implemented. When the European monarchies in Eastern Europe collapsed after the First World War it eventually became obvious how tyrannical in nature the alleged people's governments of National Socialism and Soviet Communism were.
Perhaps the head of gold seen in Daniel's prophetic vision describes why Hoppe's view of a traditional European monarchy is preferable to the unstable and decadent nature of the type of government that forms of the feet of clay, that is, the decadent mob rule of [Republican] Democracy that currently exemplifies the West. In fact, it could be argued that the current moral degradation that the West is experiencing is in fact a byproduct of so-called people's governments.
Worse, whether they be fascist, socialist, republican, or democratic, they are exceedingly difficult to change given that under these so-called people's governments one is more easily labeled a political terrorist for advocating the head of its leader. The latter typically resorts in individuals viewing such an advocate as an "enemy of the people" since the leader was elected by the majority rather than an inheritance by right of birth. Under a monarchy however, since a monarch's realm is privately owned, individuals are not as easily inclined to view a rebellion against said monarch as "unpatriotic" or "terrorist" in nature.
However, since governments in all its forms is always and necessarily tyrannical, might we not give Rothbardian anarchism a chance? Have we not attempted every other form of government with increasingly disastrous results?
[note: please keep in mind that this article is not a discussion on the legitimacy or illegitimacy of preterism per se but rather to display the biblical basis for dispelling the idea of republican or democratic form of government as a panacea for liberty]
May 20, 2011
Notice how the Babylonian monarch eventually converted. Traditionally, ancient Babylon and the Mede-Persians allowed their subject peoples to retain their kings, that is, or at least some measure of independence, as opposed to the Romans whose iron fist was given birth by "people's governments" in the form of a Republic or Democracy. This in turn led to not only empire but a desire for absolute world dominance on a [then] global scale. It reminds one of the United States, where it too was founded as a people's government (a republic) which has become so decadent and corrupt that its blatant hypocrisy should probably have become obvious beyond the small multitude of individuals who rightfully recognized it before the advent of the internet.
Granted, my statements are not an endorsement of monarchy per se nor for the ancient kings of the aforementioned kingdoms/empires. However, the Bible does appear to indirectly display the increasingly decadent nature of so-called people's governments wherever they have been implemented. When the European monarchies in Eastern Europe collapsed after the First World War it eventually became obvious how tyrannical in nature the alleged people's governments of National Socialism and Soviet Communism were.
Perhaps the head of gold seen in Daniel's prophetic vision describes why Hoppe's view of a traditional European monarchy is preferable to the unstable and decadent nature of the type of government that forms of the feet of clay, that is, the decadent mob rule of [Republican] Democracy that currently exemplifies the West. In fact, it could be argued that the current moral degradation that the West is experiencing is in fact a byproduct of so-called people's governments.
Worse, whether they be fascist, socialist, republican, or democratic, they are exceedingly difficult to change given that under these so-called people's governments one is more easily labeled a political terrorist for advocating the head of its leader. The latter typically resorts in individuals viewing such an advocate as an "enemy of the people" since the leader was elected by the majority rather than an inheritance by right of birth. Under a monarchy however, since a monarch's realm is privately owned, individuals are not as easily inclined to view a rebellion against said monarch as "unpatriotic" or "terrorist" in nature.
However, since governments in all its forms is always and necessarily tyrannical, might we not give Rothbardian anarchism a chance? Have we not attempted every other form of government with increasingly disastrous results?
[note: please keep in mind that this article is not a discussion on the legitimacy or illegitimacy of preterism per se but rather to display the biblical basis for dispelling the idea of republican or democratic form of government as a panacea for liberty]
May 20, 2011
But in view of the above regarding Rome, consider the following:
[b] have I found such faith.
Also note the difference between possessing the kingdom and being possessed by it!
P.S. Mixing iron and clay would give you steel and/or something like industrial ceramics which are partly strong and partly brittle. The less refined steel is, the more brittle it is.
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