{"id":65212,"date":"2023-04-01T15:16:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-01T20:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65212"},"modified":"2023-04-01T15:16:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-01T20:16:40","slug":"doug-casey-on-how-governments-use-global-crises-to-take-more-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65212","title":{"rendered":"Doug Casey on How Governments Use Global Crises to Take More Control"},"content":{"rendered":"

Doug Casey on How Governments Use Global Crises to Take More Control<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n
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International Man<\/strong>: Throughout history, governments have used crises\u2014real or imagined\u2014to eliminate freedoms, expand the power of the State, and justify all sorts of things the populace would never accept in normal times.<\/p>\n

After World War II, Winston Churchill famously said, \u201cNever let a good crisis go to waste.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n

This was when he and other leaders came together to form the United Nations, which they probably could not have created without the crisis of WWII.<\/p>\n

Ever since, it seems that each new supposed crisis causes a further centralization of global power.<\/p>\n

The War on (Some) Drugs, the War on Terror, the COVID hysteria, and the so-called climate crisis have all ratcheted up the centralization of power on a global scale.<\/p>\n

What do you make of this trend?<\/p>\n

Doug Casey<\/strong>: It makes sense that Rahm Emanuel, a sleazy Obama apparatchik, would have stolen the phrase from Churchill. But the statement is quite correct, regardless of the source. Government lives on crisis. As Randolph Bourne said, \u201cWar is the health of the State,\u201d and there\u2019s no crisis like a war. But any kind of crisis can work.<\/p>\n

Whenever you have a crisis\u2014whether it\u2019s a military, political, economic, financial, or social crisis\u2014the mob calls for strong leaders to kiss it and make it better.<\/p>\n

This plays perfectly into the hands of the kind of people who work for the State. As far as I\u2019m concerned, it\u2019s a psychological flaw in humans, stemming from the fact that we\u2019re pack animals.<\/p>\n

Pack animals want leaders.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not sure how we solve this problem other than delegitimizing the idea of the State and defanging it as much as possible. And stop lauding, even apotheosizing, its employees…<\/p>\n

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