GLF on Nostr: “As soon as someone does not like something that happens in the world, he says: ...
“As soon as someone does not like something that happens in the world, he says: “The government ought to do something about it. What do we have a government for? The government should do it.” And this is a characteristic remnant of thought from past ages, of ages preceding modern freedom, modern constitutional government, before representative government or modern republicanism.
For centuries there was the doctrine—maintained and accepted by everyone—that a king, an anointed king, was the messenger of God; he had more wisdom than his subjects, and he had supernatural powers. As recently as the beginning of the nineteenth century, people suffering from certain diseases expected to be cured by the royal touch, by the hand of the king. Doctors were usually better; nevertheless, they had their patients try the king.
This doctrine of the superiority of a paternal government, of the supernatural and superhuman powers of the hereditary kings gradually disappeared—or at least we thought so.”
Mises in “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow
3rd Lecture: Interventionism”
https://mises.org/online-book/economic-policy-thoughts-today-and-tomorrow/3rd-lecture-interventionism
https://youtu.be/kq0cZohKn8s?si=VScxvqxjU4T83e7y
For centuries there was the doctrine—maintained and accepted by everyone—that a king, an anointed king, was the messenger of God; he had more wisdom than his subjects, and he had supernatural powers. As recently as the beginning of the nineteenth century, people suffering from certain diseases expected to be cured by the royal touch, by the hand of the king. Doctors were usually better; nevertheless, they had their patients try the king.
This doctrine of the superiority of a paternal government, of the supernatural and superhuman powers of the hereditary kings gradually disappeared—or at least we thought so.”
Mises in “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow
3rd Lecture: Interventionism”
https://mises.org/online-book/economic-policy-thoughts-today-and-tomorrow/3rd-lecture-interventionism
https://youtu.be/kq0cZohKn8s?si=VScxvqxjU4T83e7y