But when the law, by means of its necessary agent, force, imposes upon men a regulation of labor, a method or a subject of education, a religious faith or creed — then the law is no longer negative; it acts positively upon people. It substitutes the will of the legislator for their own wills; the initiative of the legislator of their own initiatives. When this happens, the people no longer need to discuss, to compare, to plan ahead; the law does all this for them. Intelligence becomes a useless prop for the people; they cease to be men; they lose their personality, their liberty, their property.
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527 sats \ 1 reply \ @pillar 14 Sep 2023
The world can definitely benefit from more Bastiat. It's surprising how little known he is given how awesome and easy to understand his ideas are.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @orangecheckemail_isthereany 30 Oct
Yes I found his writing to be very very accessible.
Would be an ideal target for samizdat. In fact I should print out a couple "The Law" booklets, and maybe a few "That Which is Seen and That Which is Unseen" and drop 'em off and leave 'em lying in plain view on coffee tables or similar structures in public places.
Maybe I'll do that.
At least that way I'd know (for now I guess, until we've inquisition 2.0 robot style) there's not some algoritmn or AI software on the look-out and ready to remove vessels of wrong-think and "dangerous misinformation".
Should leave some copies of Mises "Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth" and "Bureaucracy". They pack quite a punch for being such short works as well. Probably little less accessible though.
Would that kind of activity make one a "dangerous domestic information terrorist", or a heathen in the eyes of the new pseudo-religion of state-managed bureaucracy-intermediated pseudo-technocracy?
There is some real danger that the anti-american anti-constitutional stuff in the ironically named Patriot Act may apply to people engaged in so-called "information terrorism". The label "terrorist" is one of those magic words in american law. Poof and your civil rights disappear.
Americans gotta watch out for their deep state pulling tricks like this.
Mike Benz is probaly the guy to follow to get up to speed on the history, and to stay up to date with developments in this space.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 7 Aug
Great quote
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 13 Sep 2023
In addition to this, here is a must watch video.
Please pay attention to what he's explaining.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xO8FQyHUkw
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