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“Citizens often think of a state's interests in terms of the promotion of ideals such as democracy, a particular way of life, or other values which they endorse or see as part of their historical continuity and identity. In this domain as in others values are not fixed, and so a state's interests are dynamic and in a constant state of negotiation and construction.”

Thinking Way States Values Term Interest Democracy Identity Particular Citizens Ideals Constant Historical Fixed Construction Negotiation Domain Promotion Continuity

Author:Dale Jamieson

“The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.”

Development Citizens Historical Workers Producers Consumers Transformed Clients

Book:The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

Source: The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical roots in the American experience. Since the founding of our country, citizens from Ben Franklin to David Letterman have made fun of their elected officials.”

“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.”

Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal