State Formation Is The Seed Of The Destruction Of Civilization.

What we are then witnessing is the seed of the destruction of civilization. This is the trend towards no ethics, no justice, and no liberty. It can be traced back to the use of power to take advantage of others. It starts with an individual but it expands. This is the beginning of State formation! There are only two ways to acquire property and wealth: through production (economic means) or through coercive expropriation (political means).

As it expands it creates a political class. The incentives within such an environment stimulates even more ego-driven ambition to intervene in more and more ways, expanding in all directions with the far-off ultimate goal to gain complete monopoly control, with the power to confiscate and distribute without restraint.

As the State becomes a pervasive influence in the culture it begins to control the information about itself and begins to weave myths about its merits. It finds ways to bring within the confines of its tabernacle the representatives of science and religion and uses these ‘tools’ to do two things: 1.) to reduce opposition from people who depend on these authority figures for their judgments, 2.) to create a culture of relative morality, weakening both science and religion in everyone’s eyes, thereby weakening any opposition by leaders of science and religion as the potential rivals to the absolute State.

Also brought within its tabernacle are the other social institutions for the purpose of increasing its power. What we have are economics professionals and legal professionals including legislators and politicians all serving to promote the goals of the State. This is the point where the political class that benefits from the wealth transfer theory of government becomes the new aristocracy with separate, special ‘legal’ interests. “Whoever wields law has power over everyone else.” [11]

At this point the State has succeeded in altering the perception of law: as something that is made by the government.

Liberty & Justice of Economic Equilibrium, p. 8.

[11] Philip K. Howard, The Lost Art of Drawing the Line, (Random House/New York, 2001), Pp. 68-9.

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