This is Ron White's joke!

In philosophy class we discussed Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates. We even discussed Buddha and Jesus Christ. There was also Max Weber. Though Weber was a sociologist there was clearly a train of philosophy in his otherwise socially scientific thoughts. Therefor I shall explain my understanding on government based on my rudimentary understanding of the philosophy of Max Weber, sociologist philosopher.

As much as we like to point the finger at leadership we need them in the purest form of irony.

During times of feast we celebrate and times of famine we lament. But like the yin yang we have thise lamenting the leadership in feast and celebrating in famine.

However, leadership keeps people together. Either as a rallying force for the way or a enemy to band against. For the latter the people will banded against those against the greater good. A necesssry but still evil culling, which is the reason for the leadership.

This leadership has culminated in our society into what we call government. We as people cannot see past our immediate needs to outside. The idea of government is a group of elites that can see the big picture. Even so they have their own interests and people can really tell when someone is on the take. They rally against that corruption respresented by that corrupt figure. The corruption succeeds or it fails but otherwise people would not have the grand goals of supporting the good, benefitting from the corrupt, or fighting the bad. Their goals would be hunter gather and hunt food. That lifestyle is the most harmless and pure to society. It is clean mountain water not tap, but most would die without tap.

That is why we are the dominant species on the planet. We have infrastructure that runs deep. If weren't for the leadership and the governments we would not even be living as good as those that live off the grid, because they have access to modern technologies that make their life possible. We would still be in caves hunting and gathering with a population comparable to any other predator like a bear with a slight advantage because of our thumbs.

Max Weber described government as the monopoly of force. When the individual is allowed his own force no society can emerge from that. He would fight community for his own well being and food. Take the force from him and people can work together. Somebody has to occupy that spot or we would still be stuck in a cave.