IPFS News Link • Philosophy: Anarchism
Death by Methodological Individualism
• by Wendy McElroyThe great political lie is that individuals need the state. It is a lie on at least two levels.
The first layer of the great lie: It states the opposite of what is true; the state needs individuals. And the state is desperate for you to believe it is indispensable to your life. If it were not there to "take care of you," the state wants you to believe that your children would be uneducated, the roads would remain unpaved, health care would disappear, foreign tanks would roll past your doorstep and crime would run amok in the streets. Nonsense.
- See more at: http://www.dailybell.com/editorials/34802/Wendy-McElroy-Death-by-Methodological-Individualism/#sthash.jzMpkrOL.7PglP0nC.dpufThe first layer of the great lie: It states the opposite of what is true; the state needs individuals. And the state is desperate for you to believe it is indispensable to your life. If it were not there to "take care of you," the state wants you to believe that your children would be uneducated, the roads would remain unpaved, health care would disappear, foreign tanks would roll past your doorstep and crime would run amok in the streets. Nonsense. ...
The great political lie is that individuals need the state. It is a lie on at least two levels.
The first layer of the great lie: It states the opposite of what is true; the state needs individuals. And the state is desperate for you to believe it is indispensable to your life. If it were not there to "take care of you," the state wants you to believe that your children would be uneducated, the roads would remain unpaved, health care would disappear, foreign tanks would roll past your doorstep and crime would run amok in the streets. Nonsense.
- See more at: http://www.dailybell.com/editorials/34802/Wendy-McElroy-Death-by-Methodological-Individualism/#sthash.jzMpkrOL.7PglP0nC.dpuf