Average Joe vs Normal Government

Wealth is unbalancedly distributed among the rich and the poor. Fact remains that there will always be poor. What if richness and poorness were all part of the insanity continuum? We all want to be considered as extraordinary in our own way, problem with that is that in wanting we only compulsively emphasize our lack and not realize that were already extrasuperpowerful. To illustrate the meaning behind these seemingly ridiculous thoughts, take the ordinary average joe.

AJ works hard but not so hard that he passes out from doing those things he likes. He has time to do all the necessary things plus the fun ones. Further, he is not particularly so busy throughout the day that he might forget to relax. AJ has total and complete freedom to choose as he likes. Armed with this knowledge he doesnt always choose whats best for himself or others, but he always bounces back from the consequences of bad action. Sometimes he might even have charity sprees, donating time and money for whatever purpose but mostly just because he feels like it. Random extraordinary things happen in his life from day to day so most times he views himself as extremely lucky as well.

After all this you should realize that average Joe is pretty sane. Sanelynes should define pretty much the rest of us, yet there are people living in the fringes that are insanely rich or insanely poor on certain something. Since money represents value, lets talk about what amounts to the most insanely rich money monger of them all, governments. Were you thinking of anybody else? So now let us pose a little scenario and ask the question, what if one average joe was just as rich as his government and he knows this? Apply a little reverse psychology, some ingenius thinking and what we have here is AJ's ideal government, a normal government.

Normal government is a government of the sane. It requires little supervision and it acts just like a person who has control over certain things, because that is what it is most interested in. interestingly enough the people who run it are the AJ's of the world. Sane people have control over the visionaries and the blind. So how does this work given that our uniqueness makes us all partially unsane? Conformity kills humanity, however much we might like to do the impossible, there is comfort in being with the majority. So let the majority rule the world, let the minority take care of the details. In this topsy turvy sort of setup there exists a natural check and balance for the distribution of wealth, namely taxes. One can only live far away in the harsh weather for so long.

Normal government taxes everyone, it even taxes itself. Normal government sets the standard of normalness. Being the richest as the universal recepient of everyones taxes, NG is required to pay as much welfare expenses, for those who acceptit, as is necessary in order to remain normal just like any average joe. Obviously those who need it are the poor who fall short of the income bracket that states you are also normal, while the rich can opt to stay as far above normalcy as they wish as long as they pay at least 10 percent in taxes, forfeiting temporarily their right to rule. By default only the government is required by law to always maintain normalship. Only average joes have a say in government. Neither the rich nor the poor have this voice.

You see where all this is headed? Average joes can always be rich if they want to but why should they when it's more fun to be in control. Depending on the lifestyle you want, you can fall into certain brackets of the richness or poorness continuum wherein you increasingly have less freedoms. Some people must be at the frontiers of soceity but they dont have to be there always. This means the poor are always entitled to receive as much help as they need to attain at least normalship, but only if they want. Most normal people actually just choose to be normal whether they work hard or not, whether they like to be in control or not.

If you so desire to be famous or infamous well then go for it, extend your five minutes of fame to a lifetime of possibly pain. It's not all bad because people learn different ways. Being normal allows you to stay invisible, making little things count. If the world was changed by any sinner or saint it is because normal people paid attention. Therefore it is by far more important to focus and be who you are meant to be, follow the crowd if need be, but abide by your own decisions. Ignorance is also a call to celebration. Party because of what you are about to know. There is every reason in the world to be happy - better yet the step beyond reason is joy. To be truly liberated, you would have to realize that you are actually wealthy, only then can you possibly hope to be normal.

The normal government by example is itself rich with its only practical limitation being that it is required to be normal. Therefore only it has freedom to exercise justice over the people by the wisdom of the people. Hence as another example, criminals in jail may represent the poorest of the poor. Those who choose not to change remain in jail, what wealth they are entitled to are used to maintain their relative isolation from soceity. They can always opt to get out of jail not free and only by choosing to behave and receive help as needed. On the other hand, the rich are responsible for helping the poor, but only with their permission. The rich are also directly responsible for solving soceity's problems as mandated by the rule of those majority. Specifically, normal people can go about their daily lives as they wish, burdened by only the consequences of their own actions.

End of scenario, welcome to real world. There might be a whole lot of potential to all this discussion and I was hopefully going to turn this over into some kind of premise for a science fiction novel. I dont expect this lonesome idea to pull another Karl Marx so that I become infamous as the author that inspired the enemy of the free thinking world. Besides there are plenty of relatively sane people around to balance my side of the equation, so the most I might really expect are comments though I might not always be around to answer for what I have created. Is it a monster? Is it alive? Only your feedback will show.