"The overwhelming majority of state supporters are not *philosophical* statists, i.e., because they have *thought* about the matter. Most people do not think much about anything "philosophical." They go about their daily lives, and that is it. So most support stems from the mere fact that a state *exists*, and has always existed as far as one can remember. That is, the greatest achievement of the statist intellectuals is the fact that they have cultivated the masses' natural intellectual laziness (or incapacity) and never allowed for "the subject" to come up for serious discussion. The state is considered an unquestionable part of the social fabric."

Hans Hoppe, 'Intellectuals and Anti-intellectual Intellectuals'