"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." ~ H.L. Mencken
The False Conflict
It is said so often in social discourse that there are two realms of conduct competing for control over society: one being the ‘public’ sector that represents ‘the state’ and the institutions that are dependant entirely upon state largesse; the other is the ‘private’ sector which refers to the institutions which operate outside of the state sphere, and is normally used as a synonym for ‘the market’.
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