| | Excellent article, Dr. Machan!
A similar theme appears when the subject is examined from a psychological point of view.
It is healthy for people to assert control over their environment, and it is our nature to exercise a healthy discrimination to select the best option of those available. And when we balance our respect for others with these desires to control for the best outcomes, we naturally stop our actions before they interfere with another's ability to choose.
The statist elites don't respect that natural process in others, and their drive to be in control is so great that they find all possible ways to be in control for everyone - which means 'of everyone.' They go for centralized planning to implement it and they use trickery to disguise their drive to be in control - telling everyone it is necessary for some made-up reason, or altruistically desirable.
We discover scientific laws to improve our control over reality, they make up pseudo-sciences to justify control over people.
Psychologically, statist elites are control freaks who have advocate use of government force to get their way. They create and argue theories to justify this force and to hide the psychological (and moral) truths. Some are probably acting out of a deep insecurity (normal control freak motivation) and many probably have a deep-seated anger or even hatred for others that makes it easier to justify this constant war to force others to give in to their control. It is easier to treat another badly, if you first diminish him in your mind, and fill yourself with disdain for him. Then they can feel superior - elites.
Because they won't ever address their psychological motivations, they will never succeed in reducing those anxieties, fears, or angers, hence they'll never be satisfied with any a given degree of control - and will always want more.
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Fred,
Marxists hold the concept of risk as a subconscious bogey-man, a source of deep-rooted insecurity - for them this is an emotional issue. They don't have the confidence that they can deal with reality head-on like engineers and business men. Instead, the subconscious motivation is that by controlling others who can be effective... maybe that will reduce their anxiety. "Others" are their reality. The "Collective" is the universe. Social metaphysicians.
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