Dying societal bodies exhibit a significant symptom that is well documented in the history of cultures: a flood of regulation and an impenetrable jungle of laws and controls. It is an expression of internal social disruption, of the collapse of traditional ethical and moral norms and customs, of a decline in the economy and its illusion of security, when it comes to political competition to outdo each other in setting norms and regulation. Since its establishment in the Treaty of Rome in 1957, it can be roughly estimated that the bureaucratic body in Brussels has created over 120,000 norms and regulations. Every year, the EU's parasitic body of bureaucracy spits out over 2000 new standards. This cancer symbolizes the decline of the old continent - it is the parasitic body that absorbs the economic energy of the subjects like a dry sponge absorbs water. One can safely go so far as to claim that the size of a bureaucracy is a measure of the decline of a civil society. We know these examples from history, perhaps the most famous being the Diocletianic central state, the end of all individual freedom. Along with this decay goes the decay of money controlled and issued by the state.

One of the great mistakes in the history of civilization is probably not to have snatched the money monopoly from the hands of the state. This enables him to manipulate the value of time, interest, the value of the medium of exchange, the basis of all evil, the cancer, the parasite.

The growth of the parasite also reveals one more tragic component, which comes alongside the systematic destruction of meritocratic values tested on free markets. Its bloating also causes the army of those dependent on it to grow, thus creating a unanimity to actively demand its growth at the expense of the others, the productive ones.

Its massive intervention in our society opens up the opportunity for the subsidy hunters, the social welfare entrepreneurs, as I call them, to exploit the jungle of standards at the expense of the general public and to offer goods that would never be in demand on the free market. And it is true that there are actually people on the loose who believe that a centralized entity like the state can be reformed by its own means.

Thanks to the election of Donald Trump as the new US president, we are now witnessing a field attempt to shrink the state leviathan to a healthy size. what many macroeconomists do not understand is that although the withdrawal of the state will initially cause gross domestic product to shrink nominally, it will free up precisely the capital, the human resources needed to invest correctly again in a free market environment, to direct resources into the channels in which they can have a productive effect. The actual implementation of this project would break with the logic of the existing system, would be a new design in interaction between the state and the private sector. Simply for this reason I am cautiously optimistic!