The world is much less governable than we think it is, so we pay governments taxes to put on a painful oogabooga theater, where the pain is “proof of governedness.”
“I filled out an annoying form and was on hold with bureaucracies for hours so the world must be orderly”
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What if the world is mainly orderly because people believe it is more governed than it is, so it needs less governance than it should?
Like an elephant that was chained up as a baby but as an adult still believes it can’t break out even though it’s now strong enough.
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Big government or small, government should own its actual size. The exhausting thing about the US is that half the time it tries to be big and small at the same time.
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“Do you not know, my son, with how very little wisdom the world is ruled?" (in a letter to his son Johan written in 1648, while he was regent to Queen Christina, daughter of Gustavus Adolphus.
Count Axel Oxenstierna
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