Response to Ravi Kiran's blog post entitled "Why Government"

This article is the continuation of a series of articles responding to blog posts on Ravi Kiran's blog.^[1] Here, I address Kiran's post on the 8th of September 2013 entitled "Why Government".^[2] In it, Kiran touches on many concepts relating to society, ethics, democracy, socialism, division of labour, anarchy, and the free market. Using a string of examples, he argues for a "limited government" approach that will "let individuals dictate their own lives" which, he says, will improve on the unsatisfactory status quo, i.e. one of corrupt governments that are incapable of meeting the demands placed upon them by the "mob" of the public.

Response to Ravi Kiran's blog post entitled "There is no poverty except thought poverty"

This will most likely be the first of many articles addressing the political views expressed in a WordPress blog called "Ravithinks".^[1] This blog was brought to my attention by certain friends who noticed that the views espoused therein, belonging to a blogger called Ravi Kiran,^[2] are quite different to my own sociopolitical views. In presenting Kiran's ideas to me, my friends and I began to have a quite prolonged discussion that they thought deserved a more formal exposition. I hope I can offer that here.