Evil rarely announces itself.  It comes disguised—usually in official language, smiling faces, and noble-sounding causes.  It cloaks itself in the robes of safety, progress, and equity.  Behind the curtain lies the same core: control.  This is the spirit of our age—control over thought, action, belief, and even conscience.  The state demands loyalty not just to its laws, but to its values, its definitions, and its truth.

From childhood, this message is drilled into minds.  The schools do not educate—they train.  Trained to obey, not question.  To accept, not investigate.  To follow orders, not follow truth.  The news media, entertainment, and social institutions reinforce the same script.  There’s no escape hatch.  Even “faith” institutions increasingly bend the knee to the regime, exchanging scripture for slogans.

Statism feeds on envy.  It promises fairness, but delivers theft.  It blabs to people not to admire greatness, but to resent it.  You have too little because someone else has too much—so they must be punished.  The state is glad to oblige.  In this system, the plunderer is not the criminal, but the hero.  As long as he wears a badge, passes a law, or issues a check, the theft is sanctified.

The court intellectuals legitimize the whole arrangement.  They give envy a philosophy and force a moral inversion: stealing becomes sharing, coercion becomes care, and dissent becomes danger.  The truth is flipped on its head—and the people cheer while shackled.

Defending freedom is not anti-social.  It’s the most pro-social position possible.  Those who cherish liberty value community, family, faith, and property.  They know these must be protected from the creeping hand of the state.  True culture is not state-approved.  Real values are not declared by executive order.  Patriots are not those who salute flags on command—they are those who resist when the flag is used to crush freedom.

Words are weapons in this battle.  “Democracy.” “Public good.” “Patriotism.” These terms are twisted to fit the needs of power.  They shift with every agenda, reshaped to suit whatever policy the regime wants to sell that day.  The people, confused and miseducated, repeat them without realizing what they’re endorsing.

Most people aren’t consciously evil.  They’ve been conditioned to support it.  They fear standing out.  They want to be good.  The tragedy is that they’ve been taught evil is good, and good is dangerous.

Overcoming this requires clarity.  Not just facts, but moral clarity.  Not just opposition, but conviction.  Education—not the kind dispensed by state-approved curricula, but the kind that liberates—must return.  The kind that teaches you to think, not to parrot.  To judge, not to comply.  Above all, to recognize the lie when it wears the mask of virtue.

The parasites thrive only when unnoticed.  Shine light on them, and they scatter.  Speak truth, and their spell breaks.  The first step to reclaiming a free society is this: refuse to serve evil, even when it calls itself good.

Reference

Murray Rothbard; The Irrepressible Rothbard