{"id":7477,"date":"2015-04-22T06:34:49","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T11:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7477"},"modified":"2015-04-22T06:34:49","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T11:34:49","slug":"war-the-birth-and-health-of-the-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7477","title":{"rendered":"War\u2014\u2013The Birth And Health Of The State"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/davidstockmanscontracorner.com\/war-the-birth-and-health-of-the-state\/\" target=\"_blank\">War\u2014\u2013The Birth And Health Of The State<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>In my essay \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/dan-sanchez\/the-herd-mind-64127f5bac9f\">The Herd Mind<\/a>,\u201d I explained how \u201cWar is the health of the State,\u201d according to Randolph Bourne: in particular, how war causes a country to regress from a diverse civilization to a uniform herd locked in fight-or-flight mode, and easily driven by the government.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As I mentioned in my talk \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/dan-sanchez\/war-and-the-government-control-of-money-a64bcab574d1\">How the Fed Feeds War<\/a>,\u201d this propensity is not lost on those in government, which explains why so many of them are so wont to start and expand wars. War is a pressure point on the body politic which the government strikes to disable resistance and obtain submission. By repeatedly striking that nerve, and thereby inducing war fever and triggering fight-or-flight, a government continually renews its subject population\u2019s sense of alarm and dependence, its pliability and support.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p id=\"53dd\">Thus it has ever been, for as I propounded in my essay, \u201c\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/dan-sanchez\/war-is-the-birth-of-the-state-96cafbce9558\">War is the Birth of the State<\/a>,\u201d government owes its very origin to this effect. As Herbert Spencer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.econlib.org\/library\/LFBooks\/Spencer\/spnMvS3.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote id=\"6e67\"><p>\u201c\u2026Government is begotten of [martial] aggression. (\u2026)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote id=\"364c\"><p>\u2026at first recognized but temporarily during leadership in war, the authority of a chief is permanently established by continuity of war; and grows strong where successful war ends in subjection of neighbouring tribes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p id=\"9dc8\">This is the tribe transforming from a community of families into a ravaging horde and a stampeding herd under the direction of its chief as herdsman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>War\u2014\u2013The Birth And Health Of The State In my essay \u201cThe Herd Mind,\u201d I explained how \u201cWar is the health of the State,\u201d according to Randolph Bourne: in particular, how war causes a country to regress from a diverse civilization to a uniform herd locked in fight-or-flight mode, and easily driven by the government. &nbsp; [&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":[5],"tags":[2860,4883,303,305,4881,3520,1309,4882,862],"class_list":["post-7477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-authority","tag-body-politic","tag-fed","tag-federal-reserve","tag-herd-mind","tag-imperialism","tag-state","tag-tribe","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7477","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=7477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7478,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7477\/revisions\/7478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}