In “Democracy in America'' (1835) Alexis de Tocqueville predicted that the society would fall into a new kind of servitude where the ruling authority, “covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules,” in a process which “does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes and stupefies people, till each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals of which the government is the shepherd.”
It turns out he was a prophet of sorts or at least able to think ahead because, hey pilgrim, take a good look at what's all around you.
https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/the-meaning-of-freedom-and-security
It turns out he was a prophet of sorts or at least able to think ahead because, hey pilgrim, take a good look at what's all around you.
https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/the-meaning-of-freedom-and-security
In “Democracy in America'' (1835) Alexis de Tocqueville predicted that the society would fall into a new kind of servitude where the ruling authority, “covers the surface of society with a network of small complicated rules,” in a process which “does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes and stupefies people, till each nation is reduced to be nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals of which the government is the shepherd.”
It turns out he was a prophet of sorts or at least able to think ahead because, hey pilgrim, take a good look at what's all around you. ðŸ¤
https://alexkrainer.substack.com/p/the-meaning-of-freedom-and-security
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