Collectivism is marked by a distinct attachment to the state as the source of life.
For the modern progressive, or liberal (not classical liberalism), the over “educated” elite, the powers that be, the academics, media people and bureaucrats that run our lives, and the people who depend upon them or benefit from them in some fashion, socialism, collectivism, communism, fascism is a no-brainer. All social and all individual crises thus become a matter of government purview. In the age we live in, government is worshiped by the wise instead of God. Individual self reliance is a terrifying and out of date notion. Many of these intellectual idiots, writes Brandon Smith of Alt-Market
have lived on the dole since they were born, moving from their family’s money, to state money through grants and loans. It is not unheard of for these people to become career students, avoiding work for years, and then moving on to a bureaucratic job when the free money runs out. They cannot fathom why anyone would rebel against the system, because they are a part of a select group which has always benefited from it. How could the federal government be bad when it has paid their way for half of their existence?
We have been warned…
- About the perils and soon collapse of the economy by the Von Mises, Rothbard, Hayek and many others
- Of the Warfare State by Eisenhower
- About the perils of ignoring history by George Santavana
- About the dangers of expansionary government by our founding fathers
- About the use of law to plunder the citizenry by Bastiat and a tool of oppression by Tacitus
- About how democracies degenerate by John Adams and Historian Alexander Fraser Tyler
- and about the worship of the state and its leaders by Benjamin Franklin and God himself.
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