How do liberty and government relate to economics and culture?

 How do liberty and government relate to economics and culture?

 

 

Liberty—which does have a minimal government—to preserve liberty—allows people to trade freely and be entrepreneurs more easily.  There are more businesses.  More technology.  More jobs.  More tax dollars for infrastructure.   Thus, there is more wealth—and more distribution of wealth.

 

With more wealth comes more culture: more art, more music, more film.  This has been true since the renaissance beginning in Florence and  Vienna and the enlightenment in Germany and Britain and the modern era in the United States, Britain, Germany and Japan.  Each of these nations benefitted from free trade and entrepreneurship—which overflowed into culture and art.

 

In societies where there is an authority determining the flow of wealth.  There is less equal distribution of wealth.  There are less entrepreneurs and less jobs.  There is limited or virtually no trade.  And the people of those societies are much more burdened and poorer and have to work harder—if they can find work—for less money and less infrastructure (the things that government does do—like education and healthcare and roads and bridges and police and fire departments).  Also, horrible things happen to culture.  There are cultural revolutions where centuries of art and literature and spirituality are destroyed.  

 

So many nations and continents are devastated by authoritarian rule.  Their people are poor and hungry and without so many things.  Even basic health and safety.

 

The stick of authority is brutal and destructive—vinegar to a people. The carrots of laissez faire politics/economics are water to a people.

 

In each nation that has had the choice between modernism: laissez faire economics—and well-intentioned government.  Well-intentioned government has crippled or destroyed these nations’ and their peoples’ well-being.

 

How does this happen?  There is a fervor over a philosophy that overtakes the voters or their representatives (the peoples’ representatives are also these philosophes and intelligentsia (de facto)) and a revolution or a new government is formed that says everything the people want to hear:  We will take care of you.  We will provide for you.  We will protect you.  Everyone wants to hear this.  It is the same thing that happens in fascism.

 

And institutionalization occurs.  The people become dependent on the government to take care of them.  And the organic connections between people disappear.  The organic entrepreneurship disappears—or there is no opportunity.  The organic trade doesn’t have avenues.  The jobs disappear.  So, there is less or no wealth to redistribute.

 

And the only art and culture left in government driven societies is that which worships the new religion.  The state. The propaganda that supports the state.  The propaganda that supports the collective consciousness.  That supports the state.  Or the monarch.  Or the despot.

 

This is the best-case scenario.  In most cases, a brutal monarchy or despotism takes over.  And a brutal dictatorship occurs.  And the people live in destitution and fear and violence.  They are not allowed to speak freely.  They are not allowed to protest the government.  They are often burglarized by government agents—even murdered.  Even murdered en masse.

 

And a cold truth that may be hard to believe—even in modern nations: these philosophes and intelligentsia—and their media—become landed gentry: royalty.  They get paid to con all of you. Over time, these intelligentsia do it for free.  This is nearly impossible to believe—and highly dangerous to say: but it is the old royalty regaining power over you.  It is back to lords and serfs.  You become serfs to the royalty again—guised as progressives—but you agreed to it!