Saturday, June 21, 2008

A Stable Statist Society Requires Belief

...would the State "work" if the population didn’t "believe" in it? The coercive apparatus of the State, fine-tuned in the U.S. since the time of Washington and Jefferson, has risen to a level of fine art as it generates a belief in its necessity while simultaneously remaining just out of view.

Our government has taken care of us for so many years that it is questionable if we will ever be able to take care of ourselves as we once did.

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