Tag: Lack of reflective thought upon the actual nature of the State

Key idea: "There appears to be a curious difficulty about exercising reflective thought upon the actual nature of an institution into which one was born and one’s ancestors were born." (A. Nock)

• The Rise and Fall of Society - by Frank Chodorov (1959)
• How far we have abandoned the doctrine of rights
• The God of the Machine - by Isabel Paterson (1943)
• Native tribes had no government and less crime (The Noble Savage)
• Our Enemy, the State - by Albert Nock (1935)
• There appears to be a curious difficulty about exercising reflective thought upon the actual nature of an institution into which one was born and one’s ancestors were born.
• The Man versus the State - by Herbert Spencer (1884)
• The substitution of a benevolent despot for a malevolent despot, still left the government a despotism
• Of the original contract - by David Hume (1748)
• Obedience or subjection becomes so familiar that most men never make any inquiry about its origin or cause
• The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse Of Voluntary Servitude - by Etienne De La Boetie (1553)
• The nature of the State. One is led to say that people has not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement
• Custom becomes the first reason for voluntary servitude