Via NC Renegade
The average person is a statist, whether he realizes it or not. It is
important that liberty activists recognize and accept this fact because
the truth of our limitations as a movement determines the kinds of
solutions into which we should ultimately put our time and energy. The
fantasy of a final grand march of an awake and aware majority on the
doorsteps of power is just that: a fantasy. Some people might argue that
given more time, such an event could be organized or could happen
spontaneously. But these people seem to forget that the immediacy of any
crisis inspires awareness and cuts the bindings of complacency for only
a certain percentage of any given population. With “more time” often
comes more complacency, not less.
So, history becomes a kind of balancing act, with crisis generating
the necessity of intelligent and moral action in some people but rarely,
if ever, in most people (even during the American Revolution, in which
patriots represented a stark minority). The reason that the culture of
freedom consistently plateaus and remains stuck at underdog status is
because human beings are, first, often acclimated to the idea that
crises are things that only happen to other people, and, second, they
are obsessed with the idea that governments should retain prohibitory
and administrative power over the public as a means to “prevent” crisis
from occurring (the sheepdog and sheep mentality).
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