A healthy nation-state performs a handful of basic functions.
It controls the borders, enforces the rule of law, protects its own people from violence and disorder, and ensures that criminals who do break the law are punished.
But a nation-state that instead succumbs to anarcho-tyranny does the very opposite.
It becomes unable or even unwilling to perform its most basic tasks — controlling the borders, tackling petty crime, keeping people safe, and so on — while at the very same time becoming more intrusive, more bureaucratic, and more oppressive towards its own law-abiding citizens.
This is a short piece that describes how Plato, the divine philosopher, injected potentially lethal strands of racism, collectivism, telling Noble Lies and the revolutionary reform by canvas cleaning into the mainstream of Western thinking.
More recently, in the wake of the 1965 U.S. Civil rights legislation, Jacques Barzan warned that affirmative action for blacks or any other aggrieved groups could unleash a monster.
Well, we were warned, but Popper and Barzun have not been on campus reading lists for decades.
Indeed Nick. We all matter. Thank you for a sound article.
Welcome to anarcho-tyranny.
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/britain-has-entered-the-age-of-anarcho
A healthy nation-state performs a handful of basic functions.
It controls the borders, enforces the rule of law, protects its own people from violence and disorder, and ensures that criminals who do break the law are punished.
But a nation-state that instead succumbs to anarcho-tyranny does the very opposite.
It becomes unable or even unwilling to perform its most basic tasks — controlling the borders, tackling petty crime, keeping people safe, and so on — while at the very same time becoming more intrusive, more bureaucratic, and more oppressive towards its own law-abiding citizens.
This is a short piece that describes how Plato, the divine philosopher, injected potentially lethal strands of racism, collectivism, telling Noble Lies and the revolutionary reform by canvas cleaning into the mainstream of Western thinking.
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/from-plato-to-black-lives-matter-a83
More recently, in the wake of the 1965 U.S. Civil rights legislation, Jacques Barzan warned that affirmative action for blacks or any other aggrieved groups could unleash a monster.
Well, we were warned, but Popper and Barzun have not been on campus reading lists for decades.
https://rafechampion.substack.com/p/jacques-barzun-on-race-thinking