a Federal judge to three members of the antigovernment Montana Freemen for conspiracy

and fraud; the article stirred my memory and concern about this paper, as well as brought

into play many of the dilemmas discussed in the Nature of Politics class. However, I do

not wish to analyze this particular article or cult, but the emergence of anarchy.

There have been theories and diagnosis of human nature: the Aristotelian, teleo-

logical view of the political animal, the Platonic, metaphorical view of the chained

caveman, the Hobbian, phobic view of savage life as inevitably 'short', and many

notable others. Regardless of the differences found in these, there is a common

denominator found in all. That is, human beings move from the animalistic, passive

stage to the civilized stage in order to materialize their potential in full.

In this domain, governments serve as expedients or facilitators of an anthropological

movement. The mechanism may differ from one type of government to another, but its

principal, common function is to lay and protect the foundations for a prosper

based on a negative view of human nature. Therefore, they try to control or channel

place, but they hardly share any common, deep political

that individuals in their selfishness would acquire a code for

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