Status Updates From The State

The President is an elected king, but the fact that he is elected has proved to be of far less significance in the course of political evolution than the fact that he is pragmatically a king.

(continue) Law, however benevolent, is the exercise of force. There is such a thing as a brutal necessity. Many people fantasize about punching their bosses.

"All of which goes to show that the State represents all the autocratic, arbitrary, coercive, belligerent forces within a social group, it is a sort of complexus of everything most distasteful to the modern free creative spirit, the feeling for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. "

This is assuming that when people are absolutely free, they are also benevolent and good.

War cannot exist without a military establishment, and a military establishment cannot exist without a State organization. War has an immemorial tradition and heredity only because the State has a long tradition and heredity. But they are inseparably and functionally joined. We cannot crusade against war without crusading implicitly against the State.

" For war is essentially the health of the State. The ideal of the State is that within its territory its power and influence should be universal."

The Bush-doctrine of the war-on-terror summarized around a century before it's actual beginning.

"Government is a framework of the administration of laws, and the carrying out of the public force. Government is the idea of the State put into practical operation in the hands of definite, concrete, fallible men."

The Frailties of the war-economy.

"In such an era the sense of the State almost fades out of the consciousness of men."
The government is disliked, even hated, during peacetime.

"Government is obviously composed of common and unsanctified men, and is thus a legitimate object of criticism and even contempt. "
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"In times of peace, we usually ignore the State in favour of partisan political controversies, or personal struggles for office, or the pursuit of party policies. "