“Hostile toward every institution which acts as a check upon its absolute power, the State has been engaged, ever since the decline of the medieval order, in stripping away one by one the functions and prerogatives of those ancient institutions which were the guardians of true community: aristocracy, church, guild, family, and local association. What the state seeks is a tableland upon which a multitude of individuals, solitary though herded together, labor anonymously for the State’s maintenance. Universal military conscription and the ‘mobile labor force’ and the concentration-camp are only the more recent developments of the system.” ~Russell Kirk David Scott adds:
"Evil works by deception, and works on many levels. Convincing the malign individuals that they will benefit is one. Convincing the gullible that evil is in fact a good, a benefit (as in the serpent and Eve) is another. Public-private partnership is also vital because: (i) Private means plans can be developed in secret (ii) Public gives access to taxation revenue—much larger than private wealth (iii) Public also means coercion can be used and given the appearance of virtuousness (greater good, etc.) (iv) These days, public also means the control of education-- training the young in what to believe and how to think. More and more, the deal our people have made with the state is revealed as the avenue used by evil to gain control".
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