{"id":48609,"date":"2019-09-22T16:58:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T21:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48609"},"modified":"2019-09-22T16:58:39","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T21:58:39","slug":"doug-casey-on-why-the-state-is-a-parasite-on-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48609","title":{"rendered":"Doug Casey on Why the State Is a \u201cParasite on Society\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caseyresearch.com\/daily-dispatch\/doug-casey-on-why-the-state-is-a-parasite-on-society\/\">Doug Casey on Why the State Is a \u201cParasite on Society\u201d<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Allow me to say a few things that some of you may find shocking, offensive, or even incomprehensible. On the other hand, I suspect many or most of you may agree \u2013 but either haven\u2019t crystallized your thoughts, or are hesitant to express them. I wonder if it will be safe to say them in another five years\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You\u2019re likely aware that I\u2019m a libertarian. But I\u2019m actually more than a libertarian, I\u2019m an anarcho-capitalist. In other words, I actually don\u2019t believe in the right of the State to exist. Why not? The State isn\u2019t a magical entity; it\u2019s a parasite on society. Anything useful the State does could be, and would be, provided by entrepreneurs seeking a profit. And would be better and cheaper by virtue of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More important, the State represents institutionalized coercion. It has a monopoly of force, and that\u2019s always extremely dangerous. As Mao Tse-tung, lately one of the world\u2019s leading experts on government, said: \u201cThe power of the State comes out of a barrel of a gun.\u201d The State is not your friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are two possible ways for people to relate to each other: either voluntarily or coercively. The State is pure institutionalized coercion. As such, it\u2019s not just unnecessary, but antithetical, to a civilized society. And that\u2019s increasingly true as technology advances. It was never moral, but at least it was possible in oxcart days for bureaucrats to order things around. Today the idea is ridiculous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The State is a dead hand that imposes itself on society, mainly benefitting those who control it, and their cronies. It shouldn\u2019t be reformed; it should be abolished. That belief makes me, of course, an anarchist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Casey on Why the State Is a \u201cParasite on Society\u201d Allow me to say a few things that some of you may find shocking, offensive, or even incomprehensible. On the other hand, I suspect many or most of you may agree \u2013 but either haven\u2019t crystallized your thoughts, or are hesitant to express them. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27229,8210,1309],"class_list":["post-48609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-anarcho-capitalist","tag-casey-research","tag-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48610,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48609\/revisions\/48610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}