Methods of The Modern State
“The greatest danger to the State is independent intellectual criticism; there is no better way to stifle that criticism than to attack any isolated voice, any raiser of new doubts, as a profane violator of the wisdom of his ancestors. Another potent ideological force is to deprecate the individual and exalt the collectivity of society. For since any given rule implies majority acceptance, any ideological danger to that rule can only start from one or a few independently thinking individuals. The new idea, much less the new critical idea, must begin as a small minority opinion; therefore, the State must nip the view in the bud by ridiculing any view that defies the opinions of the mass. “Listen only to your brothers” or “adjust to society” thus become ideological weapons for crushing individual dissent. By such measures, the masses will never learn of the nonexistence of the Emperor’s clothes.”
Anatomy of the State, Murray N. Rothbard
For those who can interpret the message above, I submit it as evidence in the case against the modern technocratic state. With the rapid advance of techology, those in power can’t help but apply those shiny new tools to subjugate the population. This path can only lead to a condition that’s entirely pro-system and anti-human. We wind up with a government that serves the select few that have, through resourcefulness or corruption, attained ‘elite’ status in our society.
In the eyes of the modern state, to be elite is to have inherent worth to your life and being. Those of us who stand outside that tight circle have no value beyond the level of pawns and fodder.
Our educational systems are corrupted or neglected by the technocrats who understand and fear the danger of a truly informed populace. This is why they’re gradually providing more and more distractions that will occupy our minds and appeal to our vulnerabilities. Drugs, sex and gambling are thriving, and will continue to thrive as long as we keep on this course. Meanwhile the state gradually strips away all our liberties and rights as citizens, the very same rights that were declared by Thomas Jefferson and Marquis de Lafayette in The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen.
