That's almost right. It would be perfect if God attributed with all these wondrous abilities were actually out there stopping evolution.In the mind of the anti-free-marketeer, the government occupies the same kind of intellectual territory as the divine designer in the mind of an anti-Darwinian.
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Almost Right
Via Instapundit comes this interesting quote from Samizdata:
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Government as Mommy or Daddy is bad enough, but government as God is a sobering thought.
ReplyDeleteBut it's true of statists at all levels, not just in terms of markets.
ReplyDeleteThere are a substantial number of people who hate CEOs because you can't trust them with all that power--so you have to give all that power to a government employee.
Something that's always puzzled me though, is why do those same people, who want to give the government so much power, hate cops? (which I perceive as different from hating the military)
ReplyDeleteI know! It's hilarious!
ReplyDeleteThey also hate The Man.
Well, who else is The Man but the freakin' gov't?