tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3409990422558768312.post4730002111140125305..comments2021-05-25T19:48:29.426-07:00Comments on ARGUS & PHOENIX: Apres moi, l'delugeMatthew C Smallwoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08234878138545287306noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3409990422558768312.post-74436059815723386632012-08-25T15:05:51.058-07:002012-08-25T15:05:51.058-07:00{Now may my bones inside me drink mostly wine,
and...{Now may my bones inside me drink mostly wine,<br />and when they are dead let Deucalion's flood cover them.} [Anthologia Graeca 11.19]Gmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11867732192385832978noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3409990422558768312.post-83637094238687316752012-08-25T11:30:35.853-07:002012-08-25T11:30:35.853-07:00{Even in the modern nation-state, which does not s...{Even in the modern nation-state, which does not suffer from a lack of centralized power, the influence of the ruling class depends at least as much on old-style patronage [e.g., keeping control by "buying off" the poor] as on the direct use of force. As the 16th century classical liberal Étienne de la Boétie pointed out, no government can wield enough force to subdue an unwilling populace; thus even the absolutist monarchy of Renaissance France rested in the end on patronage.}--Roderick T. Long (1964-). "Can We Escape the Ruling Class?"Gmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11867732192385832978noreply@blogger.com