There is always a new savior. A new scheme. A new plan. A new mission to “save” you — from yourself, from others, from nature, from reality. The state loves nothing more than a crisis dressed up as compassion.

The trick is old. The faces change, but the trick stays the same. They sell fear first. Then comes the savior. Surprise—the savior is always more government, more power, more control.

Fear doesn’t spread itself. That’s the job of the “idea merchants”— he pundits, the professors, the journalists, the “experts.” They’re not original thinkers. They’re repeater stations. Their job is to prepare your mind to accept the chains as gifts.

Call them what they are: marketers for power.

They will sell you the newest “solution” to the newest “problem”—climate, disease, inequality, misinformation, loneliness, safety, security. Pick your flavor. Notice something: the solution is always the same. More rules. More taxes. More surveillance. Less freedom.

This is not clumsy. It’s not a mistake. It’s design.

You will also see the dance between the state and its favorite corporations. They pretend to fight. They pretend to regulate. Regulation is not about protecting you—it’s about protecting them. It’s about freezing out smaller competitors and locking in their power. Every regulation is a fence. Every fence keeps someone out.

Capitalism—real capitalism—is dangerous to them. It doesn’t require their permission. It happens freely between people. Voluntary exchange terrifies the modern priesthood of power.

So, they smear it. They redefine it. They call their system of government-corporate collusion “capitalism” and then blame capitalism when it fails. Neat trick, isn’t it?

Their real religion is the worship of the state. Their rituals are taxes, regulation, and control. Their holy book is the spreadsheet. Their prayers are statistics. They think with enough data, enough models, and enough force, they can perfect the world.

Perfecting the world always starts with perfecting you. Into obedience. Into silence. Into dependence.

Every time you hear a politician talk about “saving” anything—democracy, the climate, the children, the economy—stop and listen closely.

That’s not the sound of salvation.

That’s the sound of chains being forged.

Reference

Murray Rothbard; War Collectivism