Covid-19: nên đọc gì khi bị cách ly?

cuốn 'Crisis and Leviathan' nhé, (theo gợi ý của giáo sư kinh tế Donald Boudreaux tại đại học George Mason)

ý rằng: trong khủng hoảng, chính phủ (tranh thủ) lấy/tự cho mình thêm nhiều quyền hạn hơn, kiểm soát người dân, và khi khủng hoảng qua đi, thì những quyền đó ko mất đi đâu (bộ máy tuyên truyền sẽ nói rằng luôn cần vì nhỡ khủng hoảng quay lại),
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Donald Boudreaux agrees with me (Arnold Kling) that this is the right time to dust off (phủi bụi, lấy khỏi giá sách và đọc) Crisis and Leviathan.

Typically, the quantum of additional powers granted to – or seized by – government during each crisis shrinks somewhat when the crisis passes. Normal times, after all, aren’t crisis times. But never do such additions to state power fully disappear. Government’s exercise of these powers is perceived (được cho là, coi là) as having been key (chìa khóa) to escaping the crisis (vượt qua khủng hoảng) – so such powers become more widely regarded as being beneficial (phần đông rộng rãi coi là có ích/có lợi). Fear of such powers is lessened.

The fact that this happy perception of the consequences of such powers is, at least to some degree, always an illusion conjured by the propaganda (bộ máy tuyên truyền) that government officials inevitably deploy to justify (biện minh) their exercise of their new powers is irrelevant. If people believe that this new grant of power and that new expansion of authority as used by government officials were both effective and necessary to the nation’s escape from Armageddon, people naturally lose some of the skepticism they had, pre-crisis, about such power and authority.

A sad possibility is that the process consists of government becoming stronger, people becoming more sheep-like (người dân như đàn cừu), government becoming stronger, etc.
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