"I would merely like to understand how it happens that so many people, so many villages, so many cities, so many nations, can suffer under a tyranny that has no other power than the power they give it."
Étienne de La Boétie in The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude (1577)
Authority is a bluff. Taxes, doubly so.
Of course. Everything that comes after authority is just a bluff on a bluff on a bluff
"I would merely like to understand how it happens that so many people, so many villages, so many cities, so many nations, can suffer under a tyranny that has no other power than the power they give it."
Étienne de La Boétie in The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude (1577)
Spot on. People are willing participants on their own slavery.