"[Confucius and his companions], passing through rugged and deserted mountains on their way, were surprised to find an old woman weeping beside a grave.
Confucius sent Tsze-loo to inquire the cause of her grief. "My husband's father," she answered, "was killed here by a tiger, and my husband also; and now my son has met the same fate." When Confucius asked why she persisted in living in so dangerous a place, she replied: "There is no oppressive government here."
"My children," said Confucius to his students, "remember this. Oppressive government is fiercer than a tiger."
Durant, 662 THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION CHAP. XXIII, p 662
Hope you learned a lesson - we do not have an honest government anymore and they are, frankly, illegitimate. Do not trust anything they say.
When did "we" ever have an honest government? Even worse, did we ever have an honest or decent "private/public" partnership (aka fascism)?
"There's only one real public/private partnership, and that's between our government and our citizens."
Each economic class claims that, but as usual, guess who's version inevitably wins out..
"All the others are just competing species of racketeering creating special rules for special people for special consideration and special rights."
That's where "governments" usually come from.
тАЬThe primitive state is the creation of warlike robbery; and only by warlike robbery can it be preserved.тАЭ
- Franz Oppenheimer, The State [1919] , Chap II,(d) the primitive feudal state of higher grade
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"[Confucius and his companions], passing through rugged and deserted mountains on their way, were surprised to find an old woman weeping beside a grave.
Confucius sent Tsze-loo to inquire the cause of her grief. "My husband's father," she answered, "was killed here by a tiger, and my husband also; and now my son has met the same fate." When Confucius asked why she persisted in living in so dangerous a place, she replied: "There is no oppressive government here."
"My children," said Confucius to his students, "remember this. Oppressive government is fiercer than a tiger."
Durant, 662 THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION CHAP. XXIII, p 662