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“The coldest of all cold monsters is known by the name, State. Coldly it lies, and this lie slips from its mouth: ‘I, the State, am the people.’”

„Staat heißt das kälteste aller kalten Ungeheuer. Kalt lügt es auch; und diese Lüge kriecht aus seinem Munde: ‘Ich, der Staat, bin das Volk.’” ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) “Everything the State says is a lie, everything it has it has stolen.”

Why do people love the state? What makes people trust it? Believe in it, honor it, love it. . .

Is it fear?

So many who hate and fear capitalism believe the state will protect them from big business. But what can big business do that is so evil without the power of the state and its guns?

Others hope the state will protect them from the dangers of outsiders. In modern America they call them illegal aliens and terrorists. Others fear ill health, poverty, and aging. The state, they believe, will protect them from all the evils and dangers of the world.

They believe the state will provide for their needs: jobs, food, housing, health care, and now in Europe, vacations. People confuse needs and wants, but it doesn’t matter, politicians are quick to promise anything for votes and power.

Others, who are not in need, see the state as a way to shape society in their image. They have a dream, and through the power of the state, they play with lives as pawns in a game.

They use false religion to justify – to command –  submission to the state. As the state’s power grows, idolatry grows in the hearts of the people. Faith in God, faith in themselves dims; faith in the state fills the growing void.

This false and satanic religion teaches human sacrifice for the greater common good. Humanity over one person; the state over the citizen. As the high priest Caiaphas said, “it is expedient for us that one should die for the people, and not that the whole nation should parish.”

Rights are mere conventions to lay aside for the common good, but never inalienable. The ends justify the means. Social justice instead of equal justice. Duty and self-sacrifice, but never freedom to be true to one’s self, to pursue happiness, to live for God, one’s neighbor, or one’s self. No! The state demands complete allegiance, all else is selfishness.

Erich Fromm (1900-1980) "The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist."

“Nationalism is our form of incest, is our idolatry, is our insanity. ”Patriotism” is its cult. It should hardly be necessary to say, that by ”patriotism” I mean that attitude which puts the own nation above humanity, above the principles of truth and justice; not the loving interest in one’s own nation, which is the concern with the nation’s spiritual as much as with its material welfare /never with its power over other nations. Just as love for one individual which excludes the love for others is not love, love for one’s country which is not part of one’s love for humanity is not love, but idolatrous worship.”

This idolatry justifies every sin, every crime:  covetousness, resentment, greed, theft, hatred, slavery, murder. The sins and crimes sanctioned by the state are called compassion, generosity, patriotism, duty, and heroism. The people love the state, because it allows them to commit any crime. What the people may not do on their own, they use the state to launder their sins and crimes. What they would be ashamed of doing, even privately, they exult publicly and in union with others. It is an orgy of sin, and they don’t even know it. The state purifies – justifies – their sins and crimes.

Their god, the state, is a monopoly of force. It has the legal, not moral, but legal authority to commit any crime. It has the legal authority to initiate force against any group or individual. And the people, as long as the state does not initiate too much force such as taxation, which is theft or forced labor, a draft, which is slavery, or war, which is murder, against too many people in too short of time, the people will continue to give their assent to the government and will love and honor it.

But make no mistake, no matter how benign, the state claims a monopoly of force and complete allegiance. Every state, whatever the form of government, demands sacrifice for “the greater good,” though of course it’s the state, the elite, that benefits, not the people.

Eventually the state will fail to control itself. It lives on lies and blood but is never satisfied. It hungers for more power, seeks more control and must eventually take off its mask to devour its host. Like all false gods, it fails and turns on its subjects. State idolatry like all idolatry begins in fear, turns to love, ends in terror. The state is failing; its mask is fading. The people are waking from a deep slumber. They see the beast for what it is. The terror soon begins.

Recommended:

An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard by Justin Raimundo

An Enemy of the State by F. Paul Wilson

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