It’s one of those fascinating aspects of the institution so many people regard as indispensable — you can’t hold the state responsible for its actions or negligence. You can’t hold it responsible for school slaughters or overseas military murders. You can’t hold it responsible for its endless lies and the damage they cause. You can’t hold it responsible for balancing its budget. You can’t hold it responsible for deliberately debasing the currency.
But in the spirit of double standards, the state, backed by its omnipotent bayonet, can hold you responsible for anything it chooses, especially the payment of tribute. We’ve surrendered our freedom to armed government bureaucrats.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/05/george-f-smith/public-schools-and-the-states-omnipotent-bayonet
From everything I read you would think we were incapable of solving social problems.
In truth, we find matters only getting worse because the proposed solutions almost always involve the culprit — the state — taking more control over our lives.
The state is a box we desperately need to think outside of if we’re ever going to establish civil relations among people. We would do well to remember that the state is absolutely not in the business of making our lives better. It is an institution appended to the rest of society through force for the purpose of enriching the lives of its members.
Modern welfare states might make this difficult to understand, but it’s no less true. The State is not in the business of producing wealth and then distributing it to the most needy or deserving. It is not the successful entrepreneur turned humanitarian when it dishes out payments to favored beggars, whether they be unemployed workers, corporate cronies, foreign dictators, research facilities, or any other rent seeker. It is best thought of as a homicidal thief who takes pains to appear as a good guy.
The state is fundamentally a criminal organization and liberty’s greatest enemy. It’s that simple, and that ugly. For starters see Anatomy of the State, The Criminality of the State, and The Left, the Right, and the State. “Your entire life is at the mercy of the State,” writes Hoppe in A Short History of Man.
The state, being criminal and criminally inept, creates the crises that naive or disingenuous people blame on liberty.
Interventionist mania has been hugely successful but only as a means of bloating the state. Otherwise it achieves the opposite of its stated aims. Has the state been successful in preventing terrorist attacks? Has it achieved its stated goal of eradicating poverty? Have state regulations in health care, which began long before ObamaCare, succeeded in making health care better and more affordable? Did its countless financial regulations prevent the recession of 2007-2008? How about the job it did following 9/11, with Orwell at home and bloody cakewalks overseas, both of which are running indefinitely? Should we be surprised the state is meddling in Israel – Hamas, Ukraine – Russia, and China – Taiwan? The American state seems bent on pursuing nuclear Armageddon.
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