Why We Hallucinate the State's Power: Cost Diffusion, Moral Amplification, and the Atrophy of Agency
Why do citizens living in modern welfare states convince themselves that punitive taxation is a necessary, noble price to pay for a civilized society? In this episode, we unpack The Welfare State Illusion, exposing the deep category error and asymmetric cognitive accounting that cause us to hallucinate independent generative power in the administrative state.
We explore how two interlocking psychological distortions sustain this political feedback trap:
Cost Diffusion: How massive public spending initiatives divide large price tags across millions of taxpayers, making the marginal personal…
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