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Our Enemy, The Bureaucracy: Mises Circle in Phoenix
“What bureaucrats and power elites always want is for the opposition to shut up and go away, to obey orders, to accept their assigned tasks.” —Murray N. Rothbard
We won’t shut up or go away.
Bureaucracy is both a weapon and a weakness for the modern state. While bureaucracy regulates, spies on, and controls almost every aspect of our lives, it is impeded by its own incompetence and waste. That’s why Mises said, in his book of the same name, “The ultimate basis of an all-around bureaucratic system is violence,” and “Of course, the bulk of the bureaucrats were rather mediocre men.”
Maybe we should be thankful for bureaucratic inefficiency because without it we’d suffer more bureaucratic violence.
Join the Mises Institute this April in Phoenix, Arizona, to expose the danger and waste of bureaucracy. Speakers include Dr. Robert Malone, discussing his provocative book PsyWar: Enforcing the New World Order and the role of psychological operations in bureaucratic control; Tom Woods, exposing the madness of COVID-era “public health” authorities, which he documented in his book Diary of a Psychosis; and Tom DiLorenzo roasting the corruption and hypocrisy of our federal bureaucracy.
“What bureaucrats and power elites always want is for the opposition to shut up and go away, to obey orders, to accept their assigned tasks.” —Murray N. Rothbard
We won’t shut up or go away.
Bureaucracy is both a weapon and a weakness for the modern state. While bureaucracy regulates, spies on, and controls almost every aspect of our lives, it is impeded by its own incompetence and waste. That’s why Mises said, in his book of the same name, “The ultimate basis of an all-around bureaucratic system is violence,” and “Of course, the bulk of the bureaucrats were rather mediocre men.”
Maybe we should be thankful for bureaucratic inefficiency because without it we’d suffer more bureaucratic violence.
Join the Mises Institute this April in Phoenix, Arizona, to expose the danger and waste of bureaucracy. Speakers include Dr. Robert Malone, discussing his provocative book PsyWar: Enforcing the New World Order and the role of psychological operations in bureaucratic control; Tom Woods, exposing the madness of COVID-era “public health” authorities, which he documented in his book Diary of a Psychosis; and Tom DiLorenzo roasting the corruption and hypocrisy of our federal bureaucracy.
