The document discusses the differences between power and force. Power involves persuading people to willingly comply through internal motivation, while force relies on external controls and coercion to enforce obedience. It argues that power is more effective and scalable than force because it does not require extensive monitoring and control of individuals. Force risks creating an Orwellian society where individuality is discouraged and people live in fear of the state. In contrast, a system based on power maintains that the state exists to serve the people rather than control them.

1. Power
versus
Force
Power persuades people to
cooperate – internally motivated
Force coerces people to obey –
external controls of all types

2. Power versus Force
• Power would be people choosing on their
own accord to comply.
• Force is seldom needed
• Power is highly leverage. A small police,
military, or legal structure is all that is
needed.
• The people control the State
• The State exists to serve the people.
• The State is afraid of the people
• Force does not scale. It is costly to
monitor everyone to force obedience.
• Comply or die.
• Orwellian. An ever-present police force.
• Individuality is discouraged
• State controls the people.
• The people exist to serve the State.
• The people are afraid of the State

3. Freedom is a two-sided coin
Positive freedom permits a
friendly climate to exert
one’s individuality with
1. One’s Talents
2. One’s Skills
3. One’s Passions
4. One’s Convictions
Negative Freedom is domination/coercion by others
1. The political and religious elite
2. Cultural elite
3. Individuality is suppressed
4. Coerced to comply. Suffer ostracism to prevent or punish
the non conformer

4. China
versus
the United States
CHINA
• Domination by the State. They Control
Everyone and Everything
• Individuality is suppressed if not punished with
the existing social indexing of people
• The people exist to serve the State
• The people are afraid of the State
• Order is highly desired. With so many people it
is essential for survival. Without it chaos and
anarchy impoverishes everyone
UNITED STATES
• People choose to comply.
• Force is limited
• The State exists to serve the people.
• The State is afraid of the people for if the
representative acts in an unacceptable way is
voted out
• Scot Irish heritage – Resistance of all control in a
few at Washington DC

5. I. All men are born equally free and independent; therefore, all
government of right originates from the people, is founded in consent,
and instituted for the general good.
II. All men have certain natural, essential, and inherent rights; among
which are the enjoying and defending life and liberty, acquiring,
possessing and protecting property and in a word, of seeking and
obtaining happiness.
III. When men enter into a state of society, they surrender up some of
their natural rights to that society, in order to ensure the protection of
others; and, without such an equivalent, the surrender is void.
IV. Among the natural rights, some are in their very nature unalienable,
because no equivalent can be given or received for them. Of this kind
are the rights of conscience.
V. Every individual has a natural and unalienable right to worship God
according to the dictates of his own conscience, and reason; and no
subject shall be hurt, molested, or restrained in his person, liberty or
estate for worshipping God, in the manner and season most agreeable
to the dictates of his own conscience, or for his religious profession,
sentiments or persuasion; provided he doth not disturb the public peace,
or disturb others, in their religious worship.
New
Hampshire
Bill of
Rights
October
1783

6. Ethical Assumptions in Western Civilization
“Standfast therefore in the Liberty in that Christ has made you Free”
Galatians 5:2
WSJ Editorial reprinted every Christmas since 1942

7. Culture of
Life not
Death
Culture of
Liberty not
Tyranny
Property
Rights vs
the Elite or
the State
Culture of
Law not
Anarchy
Compassion
and Respect
for the
Vulnerable

8. Premises in USA
➢ America attempted to create a
society not determined by one’s
family title or class but by one’s
own freely chosen efforts
➢ Meritocracy was the ideal not
aristocracy – upward mobility is
achievable through devoted self
sacrifice and self denial
➢ Rights were not convened by
human agencies like kings, queens,
or the elite.
➢ Rights came from God and to be
inalienable (God given) immune to
revocation – “we hold these truths
to be self evident that all men are
created equal endowed by their
Creator with certain inalienable
rights among which are life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness”

9. ➢ Do all cultures have these same aspirations?
➢ Do some cultures have a culture of death and not a culture of life?
➢ Do some cultures have a culture of lawlessness rather than respect for the law?
➢ Do some cultures forbid or restrict personal ownership of property?
➢ Do some governments own all things and demand 100% loyalty?
➢ In contrast is Western Civilization worth defending and dying for?
➢ Is it exceptional?
Cultural Comparisons

10. The END
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