THOUGHTS ON MONARCHY or The Triumph of the King

How shall a man increase? [this is the wrong question] 
How shall a society increase? 

Perhaps the tension at the center of Democracy is too great, which is to say, civilization is thwarted by plurality. <---- (One can also reverse this case). 

If the collective is bound to destroy itself, then the world has need of Kings. 

The question before us is the question of movement, even as this is the most practical question. 

"Only a King can cause movement!"

(I simply speak of this as of a tragic fate). 
(One must not deny that it is a real possibility).

Inasmuch as we are increased by each other, we are also thwarted by diversity. This kind of thinking takes courage, but courage is not enough, one must have the power to see through the fog of civilization. 

It is not the fact of an Absolute Goal... it is not that we are "moving" in the Right direction, but the contrast is between movement and that which is stagnant. This means that diversity cannot compete with movement. In nearly every instance it is the model of movement which will gain the higher ground. Behold the triumph of the King! 

Does diversity produce stagnation? If this is the case then this explains the triumph of the King (which is really no triumph at all). 

A monarchy, ruled by a truly just King, is not a bad option, it is simply an impossibility. Thus the dialectic turns...

There is a contrast beyond that of movement; for the King must let the hammer fall... but here we do not speak of a specific person we speak of the King as a model of government. 

What then is the contrast between movement and stagnation? The answer is tyranny! 

Could we guarantee a just King then our monarchy would be complete; it would be the perfect form of government. But justice is that which moves, it is ever changing in relation to consciousness.

But this is not to say that Democracy is void of tyranny; for Democracy has its own tyranny!

Our social lot is that of imperfection... we have no choice but to select the lesser of many evils. 

To defend the freedom of the individual, at the same time we protect the quality of the whole, can only be the challenge of great thinkers.

Make no mistake, the science of the people, is the hardest science of all.


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