Bonus Quotation of the Day…

by Don Boudreaux on June 14, 2013

in Civil Society, Complexity & Emergence

… is from this superb NRO essay by Jonah Goldberg:

It’s a little bizarre how the Left has always conflated statism with modernity and progress. The idea that rulers — be they chieftains, kings, priests, politburos, or wonkish bureaucrats — are enlightened or smart enough to tell others how to live is older than the written word. And the idea that someone stronger, with better weapons, has the right to take what is yours predates man’s discovery of fire by millennia. And yet, we’re always told that the latest rationalization for increased state power is the “wave of the future.”

(HT Leonard Liggio – to whom Russ and I wish a very happy soon-to-be-here 80th birthday!)

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