When governments of old tired of spending resources to beat the public into submission, they created court priests to propagate a theology of obedience. These days governments maintain their rule by preying on the publics fears of sundry crises, real and imagined.
Fear
The Foundation of Every Governments Power
By Robert Higgs
This
article
appeared in
the Winter 2005/06 issue of The Independent Review.
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