{"id":4589,"date":"2021-04-18T10:04:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T17:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/?p=4589"},"modified":"2021-04-18T10:04:55","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T17:04:55","slug":"the-host-and-the-parasites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/?p=4589","title":{"rendered":"The host and the parasites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/mises.org\/library\/political-economy-fear#footnote3_1m03ii5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Political Economy of Fear<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4590\" src=\"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/12103-620x-184x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/12103-620x-184x300.jpg 184w, https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/12103-620x-600x979.jpg 600w, https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/12103-620x.jpg 605w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 184px) 100vw, 184px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Government, it is claimed, protects the populace from external attackers and from internal disorder, both of which are portrayed as ever-present threats. Sometimes the government, as if seeking to fortify the mythology with grains of truth, does protect people in this fashion\u2014even the shepherd protects his sheep, but he does so to serve his own interest, not theirs, and when the time comes, he will shear or slaughter them as his interest dictates.&#8221; from <i>The Political Economy of Fear, <\/i>by Robert Higgs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Political Economy of Fear &#8220;Government, it is claimed, protects the populace from external attackers and from internal disorder, both of which are portrayed as ever-present threats. Sometimes the government, as if seeking to fortify the mythology with grains of truth, does protect people in this fashion\u2014even the shepherd protects his sheep, but he does so to serve his own interest, not theirs, and when the time comes, he will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/draculascastle.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}