" The increasing use of scientific jargon has permitted the State's intellectuals to weave obscurantist apologia for State rule that would have only met with derision by the populace of a simpler age.

A robber who justified his theft by saying that he really helped his victims, by his spending giving a boost to retail trade, would find few converts: but when this theory is clothed in Keynesian equations and impressive references to the "multiplier effect," it unfortunately carries more conviction

And so the assault on common sense proceeds, each age performing the task in its own ways ",

Murray N. Rothbard, Anatomy of the State