Anybody here a fan of the psychologist Carl Jung? I am, and even more so now after discovering this in the “Political views” section of his Wikipedia page:
It’s essentially a psychological elaboration of the Misesian concept of “statolatry”.
I’m a fan of Jung from what little I know of him. I’ve never read any of Jung’s books, but I’ve read his analysis applied in other writings, read other people who have analyzed Jung works directly, and seen him quoted in various books, especially Joseph Campbell’s works, as Jung was into dreams and mythology. What you quote above doesn’t surprise me as something Jung conceptualized. Thanks for sharing.
Great quote in the OP.
+1 on the recommendation of Joseph Campbell.
Relevant video:
Per Bylund - Towards a simpler world
http://www.perbylund.com/the_library.htm
"Libertarians generally identify with laissez-faire and the free market. Wherever the state isn’t involved, i.e. where all actions are voluntary and peaceful, is freedom and thus in its very essence ideal. It doesn’t really matter what people do, only how they do it; everything is just fine and dandy if individuals act voluntarily and let other people choose for themselves whether they like to take part.
Voluntary interactions literally mean exchanges of something: goods, services, favors, gifts, feelings, or whatever. Everything is thus a market, at least in a not-so-narrow sense of the word. In this peaceful market of nothing but winners (yes, it’s true–they all benefit from it or they wouldn’t do it), the state barges in and makes losers of most people and points its magic wand at a few who then enjoy the privilege of receiving all the people’s lost earnings.
Whereas the market is a state of harmony and constant creation of prosperity, the state means nothing but destruction, violence, and hostility where none was ever present. Jealousy naturally becomes native in people’s relations: the state-made losers get jealous of the privileged few, and so the formerly harmonic market society becomes split in rivaling collectives, all of which have different aims for the state after its powers have been seized.
Claiming that the pre-state market society—anarchism–is chaos is thus nothing but a very bad attempt by statists to make the state look good. The real truth is so far from this created statist “truth” that it would be laughable if so many weren’t blinded by the powers of the state and therefore willing to accept its propaganda and lies.
Libertarians claim to see through this “veil of ignorance” the state has carefully set up between people and the truth, and they seek to tell the world. But they have a hard time telling people what they don’t believe they want to hear. It isn’t that people have accepted the state’s point of view, they have adopted it and believe in it like it was a religion. The state is god, and its gospel is brought to the masses through the cunningly devised systems of democracy and public schooling."