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  • Why government wants ignorance

    By no means is finding someone to espouse the greatness of universal literacy a chore, especially among politicians. Yet for all of their pandering, these very politicians would never desire for people to be literate on one subject matter: government itself. If the public were ever clued into the innerworkings...
    Posted to Apropos Austrian Aphorisms by thedo on Fri, Apr 18 2008
    Filed under: education, government, private roads, ignorance, american history, frederic bastiat, the law, parking laws, propaganda, public roads, butler shaffer
  • How The State Thrives, How The State Falls

    Foreward note: inspired in part by "The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse on Voluntary Servitude" by Eteinne De La Boetie . How the State Thrives How does the state maintain itself? It is true that to some extent all states initially derive from conquest through devices such as war and land...
    Posted to Brainpolice by Brainpolice on Sat, Dec 15 2007
    Filed under: Competition, Collusion, Education, Agorism, Social Evolution, Big Media, Interventionism, Revolution, Patronage, Entropy, Civil Disobedience, Propaganda, Intellectualism
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