Anarchy

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ally sovereign, they

gradually form a multipolar or bipolar structure where-in the eventual hegemons lobby.
The complication, therefore, stems from the fact that any hierarchy fosters legal,

pragmatic, social inequality among otherwise -legally- equal entities.

Well, it is obviously not the case that people are gifted evenly at birth, or that they

share perfect analogy and symmetry between them, despite Hobbes’ high figure of even

selfishness. Society, kindly wishes to align people at a starting point in order to grant

them the most humble yet violated right which, as first stated by St. Anselm, is that “all

men are equal.” However, complete equality among people being impossible, the wish

now becomes the amelioration or reduction of inequality.

This justice is one of the exercises of a government of men over men. “A government

of men over men” though, as pronounced by Madison, states a relationship and not an

equality or an equivalence. Men o v e r men, no matter how well or badly, literally

become: m e n o v e r men. Therefore, a government, i.e., an arbitrary or legitimate

hegemon of society, as the entity being at the top of the hierarchical chain is

proportionally greater than any, or all of its subjects, and exercises the associated,

unique power which far exceeds, and is not explicitly accommodated in, its

constitutional powers. An institutional power, distant and unfamiliar to any other

subject, that becomes even more distinct, because although one may alter, change,

modify, question, or shape it, one cannot, however, annihilate it. It is worth illustrating

this more: one cannot break it, interrupt it, pause it, revoke it, reverse it, or stop it. Such

form of power is a pure form of c o n t r o l -a power that is here to stay.

Therefore, the issue...