I see the analogy, but it's not a good one. Society is not a brick wall, it doesn't have the same properties, function or nature. Society is not monolithic; you may wish to see it as such, but I don't, and it isn't. In a previous post I thought about using an analogy depicting society as a body with communities and institutions as organs and individuals as cells. I wrote a whole post, reread it, and trashed it because 'society' is not analagous to biological organisms, bits of masonry or pieces of engineering. Please explain your position further in substantive, not metaphorical, terms.
If I let you take away my analogies, next you'll be taking away my guns, my jobs, and my women. I won't stand for it.
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Okay. What kind of animal is a human? It is a primate, an opportunistic pack predator. The natural order of the human being, contrary to the speculation of the liberals, is to belong to a pack with subordinates to command and superiors to obey. Humans instinctively crave this order, and will create it for themselves in institutional settings that do not provide it for them. Belonging to the pack is life, and being excluded from the pack is not only death, it is a horrible slow death. A pack needs a strong leader and a common culture to hold it together. When two or more packs are close together, there are only three possible results: one drives off the others, one
exterminates the others, or they sort themselves out and form a nation. A nation needs all of the same things as a pack, but it is larger; it is larger than any conceivable pack, and thus the leader and the culture that hold them together must be even stronger. A nation requires institutions that support the leader and enforce the culture; a nation requires the State.
The State is the ultimate expression of the tribal instincts of the human animal. It is the source of law, the power of the leader, and the glue that binds many humans and many packs into a single nation. Anything that challenges or undermines the supremacy of the State threatens to tear the nation asunder, replacing a strong singular State with smaller, weaker fiefdoms that more easily fall prey to neighboring nations. In order for the State to be strong, every person must support the State; every person must adore the Leader. Anything that acts as though it were above the State, outside the State, or against the State must be destroyed.
And, of course, the Leader and the State must deserve this devotion. They must act for the goodwill of the nation. They must be benevolent to their own people. They must institute and support mechanisms within the State that strengthen the people and strengthen their devotion to the State. The Leader must love the State and love the people as the people must love him.