“Deogolwulf” at his blog The Joy of Curmudgeonry:
It is funny to observe that the watchword that holds the greater authority over people’s minds is not that of authority itself, but that of freedom. Ministers of the popular state, though they have gathered ever more power over people’s lives — more than any aristocracy by its very nature could ever have gathered — , still prefer to couch the whole process in terms of freedom rather than authority; and, to some extent, they are right to do so: the absolutist state works hard to free people from all other authorities, to level and destroy, until it alone is left standing.previous
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