Every State's ultimate goal is the optimal subjugation of its host population to enable it to maximize the resources it is able to extract from the capite censi for its own benefit.
When seen correctly, every action the State takes is directed to this end. All forms of redistributio…
Every State's ultimate goal is the optimal subjugation of its host population to enable it to maximize the resources it is able to extract from the capite censi for its own benefit.
When seen correctly, every action the State takes is directed to this end. All forms of redistribution (the cage) are simply the State adapting to the lowest level of perceived value the particular population it afflicts will tolerate to continue to be coerced and robbed.
This truth has been known since antiquity, but only by the few, which is why after ten millennia of being abused and robbed by rulers, we are still surrounded by legions of useful idiots who cheer for their own oppression.
Someday, perhaps, this will change, but probably not today.
"Plays, farces, spectacles, gladiators, strange beasts, medals, pictures, and other such opiates, these were for ancient peoples the bait toward slavery, the price of their liberty, the instruments of tyranny. By these practices and enticements the ancient dictators so successfully lulled their subjects under the yoke, that the stupefied peoples, fascinated by the pastimes and vain pleasures flashed before their eyes, learned subservience as naively, but not so creditably, as little children learn to read by looking at bright picture books. Roman tyrants invented a further refinement. They often provided the city wards with feasts to cajole the rabble, always more readily tempted by the pleasure of eating than by anything else.
The most intelligent and understanding amongst them would not have quit his soup bowl to recover the liberty of the Republic of Plato. Tyrants would distribute largess, a bushel of wheat, a gallon of wine, and a sesterce: and then everybody would shamelessly cry, ‘Long live the King!’ The fools did not realize that they were merely recovering a portion of their own property, and that their ruler could not have given them what they were receiving without having first taken it from them.”
~ Etienne de La Boétie, Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, 1548
"you're mistaking the cage for freedom."
Exactly right.
Every State's ultimate goal is the optimal subjugation of its host population to enable it to maximize the resources it is able to extract from the capite censi for its own benefit.
When seen correctly, every action the State takes is directed to this end. All forms of redistribution (the cage) are simply the State adapting to the lowest level of perceived value the particular population it afflicts will tolerate to continue to be coerced and robbed.
This truth has been known since antiquity, but only by the few, which is why after ten millennia of being abused and robbed by rulers, we are still surrounded by legions of useful idiots who cheer for their own oppression.
Someday, perhaps, this will change, but probably not today.
"Plays, farces, spectacles, gladiators, strange beasts, medals, pictures, and other such opiates, these were for ancient peoples the bait toward slavery, the price of their liberty, the instruments of tyranny. By these practices and enticements the ancient dictators so successfully lulled their subjects under the yoke, that the stupefied peoples, fascinated by the pastimes and vain pleasures flashed before their eyes, learned subservience as naively, but not so creditably, as little children learn to read by looking at bright picture books. Roman tyrants invented a further refinement. They often provided the city wards with feasts to cajole the rabble, always more readily tempted by the pleasure of eating than by anything else.
The most intelligent and understanding amongst them would not have quit his soup bowl to recover the liberty of the Republic of Plato. Tyrants would distribute largess, a bushel of wheat, a gallon of wine, and a sesterce: and then everybody would shamelessly cry, ‘Long live the King!’ The fools did not realize that they were merely recovering a portion of their own property, and that their ruler could not have given them what they were receiving without having first taken it from them.”
~ Etienne de La Boétie, Discourse on Voluntary Servitude, 1548
My Good God.
Thanks