Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Exercised to the Limit

Government, as we must never forget, is force. And as Simone Weil so memorably observed, force is that mysterious influence "that turns anybody who is subjected to it into a thing. Exercised to the limit, it turns man into a thing in the most literal sense: it makes a corpse out of him."
William Norman Grigg tells us some stories that will make your blood boil.

I wouldn't want to be one of the mini-tyrants he describes when a victim finally snaps. I wouldn't even want to be associated with them.

[Via Ron W]

2 comments:

Kent McManigal said...

And yet there are those who will still defend "the state" as a legitimate human endeavor.

Anonymous said...

Ahh, but that's the hard part, holding them closely accountable and bloodying them if necessary.

I would say the blood thing seems to be the only option left.