“The increasing complexity and precariousness of our economic life have forced Government to take over many spheres of activity once left to choice or chance. Our intellectuals have surrendered first to the slave-philosophy of Hegel, then to Marx, finally to the linguistic analysts. As a result, classical political theory, with its Stoic, Christian, and juristic key-conceptions (natural law, the value of the individual, the rights of man), has died. The modern State exists not to protect our rights but to do us good or make us good—anyway, to do something to us or to make us something. …We are less their subjects than their wards, pupils, or domestic animals. There is nothing left of which we can say to them, “Mind your own business.” Our whole lives are their business.”
C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)
“How do you kill 11 million people? You lie.”
Andy Andrews “How Do You Kill 11 Million People?”
Andy Andrews is referring to the approximately 11 million people killed in Hitler’s death camps. As he mentions in his book he could just as easily have added the many millions more who died under Stalin, Pol Pot, Mao and the like. All those leaders lied to their people, and the people believed those lies and died. “We the people” have been, and are being, lied to as well — whether or not we will die as the result of our naïveté and gullibility remains to be seen.
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