“Governments, existing primarily to protect and enhance capitalism, maintain their power through the use of technologies that control the populace - by bread or circuses, by war or schooling, by armies and police, all of which are enabled and empowered by technology. That is what we might call the stick part of capitalism, while the riches-for-the-few is the carrot.” WarUseGovernmentMightTechnologyProtectCapitalismArmyPoliceSticksRichesBreadEmpoweredCircusSchoolingCarrotsUse Of Technology Author:Kirkpatrick Sale
“The virtue of small government is that the mistakes are small as well...If you want to leave a nation you think is corrupt, inefficient, militaristic, oppressive, repressive, but you don't want to move to Canada or France, what do you do? Well, the way is through secession, where you could stay home and be where you want to be.” IfsThinkingWayWantWellsHomeGovernmentMovingNationsMistakeVirtueFranceCanadaSecessionSmall Government Author:Kirkpatrick Sale
“Economic and social misery increases in direct proportion to the size and power of the central government of a nation or state.” StatesGovernmentNationsSocialEconomicDirectIncreaseMiserySizeProportionCentral Government Book:Human Scale Revisited: A New Look at the Classic Case for a Decentralist Future Source: Human Scale Revisited: A New Look at the Classic Case for a Decentralist Future
