New Course Coming soon- Structural Captivity upon Governments
The structural captivity upon government is one of the most fundamental yet concealed dynamics in the modern legal-political order. Unlike individual captivity of the mind, knowledge, or emotion the captivity of government operates not just through coercion but through inversion. Governments, which were created to serve and protect, have become agents of suppression and deception when they depart from the international legal order and peremptory norms. Here is a structural breakdown: Governments Are Not Sovereign in Absolute Terms Governments are subordinate to international law, more specifically to peremptory norms under the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (Article 27) and the ICCPR (Articles 2, 5, 16, 18). Any domestic law or action that contradicts these norms is legally null and void. "A party may not invoke the provisions of its internal law as justification for its failure to perform a treaty." Vienna Convention, Article 27 On paper and in the international order, governments are not at the top of the hierarchy. But to the citizen standing in front of a judge, a cop, or a ministry counter, that’s not the picture being projected at all. What I am pointing to is the manufactured image of supremacy. The performance of absolute sovereignty, which is itself a tool of structural captivity. Let’s unpack how that illusion is built. The image governments project: We are the top. Domestically, the government (and all its organs) presents itself as: - the final maker of rules (parliament, legislature) - the final interpreter of rules (courts, tribunals) - the final enforcer of rules (police, agencies, regulators) The narrative pushed into citizens is: Law = what we enact. Authority = what we say it is. You are under us, because you are our subject / citizen / resident. That’s the myth of sovereign absolutism. In practice the idea that the state is the highest legal and moral authority, with no superior jurisdiction that limits it.