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September 19, 2005
Mental Sanity of Statists
After my recent STR article on the Battered Statist Syndrome, I received a number of responses from people suggesting other, and perhaps better labels for the mental state of statists. One of them would perhaps be the “Stockholm Syndrome,” as one of them suggests. You know, the one where a victim of kidnappers fall in love with or begin to take sides with the kidnapper(s).
Of course, there should be a lot of psychological illness labels one can use for the state of mind of statists. Psychology is, after all, a science producing labels for states of mind of people acting irrationally, i.e. consciously distorting their view of reality or acting to their own disadvantage. “Projection” might be one, where the person projects his/her own secret, forbidden desires on others (like entrepreneurs or “the rich”).
An obvious psychological label for politicians is the “inferiority complex”; those not able to produce wealth of their own would of course, if they lack a sense of justice or morality, strive to steal the wealth of others.
No matter what label you use, our analyses have one thing in common: there is something mentally wrong with how statists hang on to the state no matter what it does. Let’s just leave it at that.
Posted by Per Bylund at September 19, 2005 03:59 PM
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