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07 November, 2009

"...diabolical, ruthless bunch of bureaucrats..."

Amy Poehler vehicle Parks and Recreation is starting to seem like an effective dramatization of public choice theory (relevant plot line begins at 1:40)...

Power

"The disposition of mankind, whether as rulers or as fellow-citizens, to impose their own opinions and inclinations as a rule of conduct on others, is so energetically supported by some of the best and by some of the worst feelings incident to human nature, that it is hardly ever kept under restraint by anything but want of power; and as the power is not declining, but growing, unless a strong barrier of moral conviction can be raised against the mischief, we must expect, in the present circumstances of the world, to see it increase."
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859