Psychologie Enfantine Et étatisme

[Jesrad]

Le dernier article de Stefan Molyneux, avc l'aide de sa psychothérapeute de feme, a découvert empiriquement pourquoi tant de gens défendent aussi farouchement leur état en dépit de la logique:

No rational examination of the evidence would lead any sane man to statism -- yet statism is the default position in society. Since statism is so blatantly irrational, it cannot have become so widespread through rational argument. Thus, there must be another source to the pervasive belief in the virtues of governments.

To many libertarians, the answer seems clear: children are turned into statists in public schools, where conformity and a deep, fearful "respect" for arbitrary authority is instilled day after day.

However, this cannot be the full extent of the story. Anyone who has spent any time around toddlers during the "terrible twos" knows that the willpower and independence of very young children is a near-superhuman force. It strains credibility to imagine that a single kindergarten teacher can restrain in 30 children the force that two parents find difficult to deal with in one child.

Thus it must be that many children are delivered into the public school system with their independence already undermined, and filled with unease in the face of arbitrary authority.

This lesson can only have come from their parents.

This does not mean that all parents are malevolents beasts out to destroy their children, but rather that the virtue of subjugating oneself to arbitrary authority -- which is another way of saying that arbitrary authority is always virtuous -- tends to reproduce itself generation by generation. Children who are subjugated to the mere authority of their parents -- without reference to objective values -- tend to grow up with a blind spot about the dangers of arbitrary power, and to assume its virtue in the absence of evidence.

This approach also helps explain another baffling aspect of libertarianism -- why people take political arguments so personally. How many times have you been involved in political or economic discussions with someone who gets irrationally offended by your arguments? Unless you are Condoleeza Rice, if you and I are discussing foreign policy, it has about as much relevance to our daily decisions as the existence of a gas planet orbiting Alpha Centauri. People rarely get offended about mathematics, but economics and politics seems to light an enormous fuse in far too many people.

At Freedomain Radio, the theory which may explain this goes something like this:

When most people are talking about the government, they are really talking about their parents.

When you criticize the government, most people unconsciously interpret that as you criticizing their parents.

If you equate government power with immorality, most people unconsciously hear you saying that their parents are evil.

[Boz]

Je pense que c'est beaucoup plus compliqué que ça…

[Jesrad]

Je pense que c'est beaucoup plus compliqué que ça…

Je pense qu'il manque une petite dizaine de paragraphes à ton post