Be careful what you wish for....................

      As the Italian economist and culture researcher Guido Tabellini puts it:  "Lack of trust and lack of respect for others are typical of hierarchical societies, where the individual is regarded as responding to instinct rather than reason, and where instinct often leads to a myopic or harmful course of action.  In such societies, individualism is mistrusted and to be suppressed, since nothing good comes out of it: good behavior is deemed to result from coercion.  Hence, the role of the state is to force citizens to behave well."

-William Easterly, The Tyranny of Experts:  Economists, Dictators, and The Forgotten Rights of the Poor