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Keyword: softdespotism

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  • Bambi vs. Godzilla (a history of the growth of the State, and its potential collapse)

    05/14/2012 11:59:00 PM PDT · by JerseyanExile · 7 replies
    The TOF Spot ^ | May 13, 2012 | Michael Flynn
    US House of Representatives. Note twin fasces flanking the flag The growing powerlessness of the modern state reflects the abdication…of its erstwhile governing classes; and it is at least probable that in its wake there will follow not the blessings of increased liberty but a long transitory brutal period of insecurity and terror. – John Lukacs, The Passing of the Modern AgeThe Age of the StateThe absolute, divine-right monarch had been unknown during medieval times, which preferred its kings weak and nominal; but royal absolutism ensured peace and security; and those are bourgeois virtues, par excellence. So the rise of...
  • Reversing Obama’s ‘Soft Despotism’

    02/20/2012 7:21:52 AM PST · by nuconvert · 4 replies
    NRO ^ | Feb 20, 2012
    -excerpt- ..Tocqueville,....."Thus, taking each individual by turns in its powerful hands and kneading him as it likes, the sovereign extends its arms over society as a whole; it covers its surface with a network of small, complicated, painstaking, uniform rules through which the most original minds and the most vigorous souls cannot clear a way to surpass the crowd; it does not break wills, but it softens them, bends them and directs them; it rarely forces one to act, but it constantly opposes itself to one’s acting; it does not destroy, it prevents things from being born; it does not...