A copy of the top-secret memo below recently came into our hands, and we thought we should bring it to your attention! "Dear National Security Elite: In an ideal world, the public would simply accept whatever their leaders?you, in other words?told them. They would comply with restrictions and mandates, not as a matter of mere obedience, but as a matter of unquestionable patriotic duty. But we don't live in an ideal world. And with the fate of the world, especially the world's wars, in the hands of our enlightened, benevolent, and eminently responsible national security elite?in your hands, in other words?we can't afford to risk opening the conversation to an informed public. And we certainly can't risk asking for anything so antiquated as "consent," either. Not when the stakes are this high. You simply must learn:
- How to control the narrative?every narrative?in your favor;
- How to completely capture the media and effectively quash dissent;
- How destroying liberty creates more liberty in the long (long) run;
- Why top-down economic planning, here and abroad, is your best friend;
- How to flout international, and of course domestic, law and get away with it;
- And much, much more...
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Christopher J. Coyne is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute and Co-Editor of The Independent Review, Professor of Economics and Director of Graduate Programs for the Department of Economics at George Mason University, Co-Editor of the Review of Austrian Economics, and Book Review Editor at Public Choice. He received his Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University. He has taught at the University of West Virginia and Hampden-Sydney College, and he has been the Hayek Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Visiting Scholar at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University. Abigail R. Hall is a Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute and an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Tampa. She was previously an Assistant Professor of Economics at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Kentucky. She received her Ph.D. in economics from George Mason University.