How is it that so many in this land of Australia are practically complacent in their own enslavement, even to the extent of not only accepting it as being normal, but, moreover, strenuously defending it, as to consent to it, to be complicit in it? Poor, willing pawns of the State.
The following quote is from Etienne De La Boetie's classic essay, The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude. It will go a long way to explaining how a people find themselves complacent in their own enslavement.
"It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly be roused to the point of regaining it, obeying so easily and so willingly that one is led to say, on beholding such a situation, that this people had not so much lost its liberty as won its enslavement. It is true that in the beginning men submit under constraint by force; but those who come after them obey without regret and perform willingly what their predecessors had done because they had to. This is why men born under the yolk and then nourished and reared in slavery are content, without further effort, to live in their native circumstance, unaware of any other state or right, and considering as quite natural the condition into which they were born."
And isn't this the sad state of present-day Australia? The land of the slave and the home of the fee. And becoming more totalitarian by the day as it is reverted to its original status as a penal colony; a continental prison.
Think on the these things.
The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude may be downloaded free, in PDF form, from Books Mises Institute. It's a good read for those that still have an interest in nonfiction.
