Remind me of this excerpt from JBP’s We Who Wrestle With God that I read yesterday. He’s talking about this without knowing he’s talking about this.

In keeping with this vision, the state does not allow its citizens their freedom. The state that forbids its constituent individuals to pay attention and to speak the truth ossifies— the freedom that abides-withers, and dies in a fit of self-defeating and increasingly demoralizing lies. This is the victory akin to the evil brother of the king; the dark, resentful, egotistical uncle of the banished but true prince; and the dread event that sets the stage for plague, stagnation, and the disappearance of the very water of life. This is a truth beyond all mere relativistic objections. There is a necessarily reciprocal relation between state and citizen-and there is no manner in which the state is superordinate, although it provides what is necessarily static and stable.