{"id":67978,"date":"2024-05-10T13:13:55","date_gmt":"2024-05-10T18:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67978"},"modified":"2024-05-10T13:13:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T18:13:55","slug":"welcome-to-the-warfare-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67978","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Warfare State"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Welcome to the Warfare State<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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War is one of the few things that only the State can do. Indeed, as Randolph Bourne said, \u201cWar is the health of the State.\u201d Let\u2019s briefly discuss the nature of the State to see why World War 3 is on the way.<\/p>\n

The State is like any other living entity: its prime directive is to survive and grow. Bear in mind that the State\u2014the government\u2014is not at all the same thing as the country or society, even though it claims to be.\u00a0It\u2019s\u00a0not \u201cWe the People\u201d; it\u2019s a distinct entity with its own discrete interests. And that\u2019s actually too mild an assertion. While individuals and companies prosper by providing goods and services to others through voluntary exchange, the State specializes in coercion.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s nothing voluntary about the State. Its main products have always been pogroms, persecutions, confiscations, taxation, inflation, censorship, harassment, repression\u2014and war. The State is not your friend.<\/p>\n

Mass murder and wholesale destruction are bad enough in themselves. But in wartime, the State enables them with new taxes, new debt, draconian controls, and new bureaucracies. These things linger long after the war is over.<\/p>\n

Worse yet, the State does these things with the sanction of the victim; the typical citizen has been taught that almost anything is justified by \u201cnational security.\u201d\u00a0Anyone who would normally protest these depredations in peacetime soon learns to dummy-up when there\u2019s a war for fear of being lynched for sympathizing with the invariably demonic enemy.<\/p>\n

After the war\u2014assuming a victory, of course\u2014the State\u2019s debt, taxes, regulations and general size never return to pre-war levels. They ratchet up to ever higher plateaus, requiring the State to do more of the same to justify its existence. Government programs, of whatever description, are almost never pulled out by their roots. At most, they\u2019re trimmed, which has the same effect as pruning a plant, i.e., they\u2019re encouraged to grow back bigger and stronger.<\/p>\n

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Welcome to the Warfare State War is one of the few things that only the State can do. Indeed, as Randolph Bourne said, \u201cWar is the health of the State.\u201d Let\u2019s briefly discuss the nature of the State to see why World War 3 is on the way. The State is like any other living […]<\/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":[2,5,6],"tags":[6227,379,391,6228,1309,862,10169],"class_list":["post-67978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-doug-casey","tag-government","tag-growth","tag-international-man","tag-state","tag-war","tag-warfare-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67978","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=67978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67979,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67978\/revisions\/67979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}