All those who share in the great state phobia should know that they are following the direction of the wind and that in fact, for years and years, an effective reduction of the state has been on the way, a reduction of both the growth of state control and of a "statifying" and "statified" a German invasion of England, which had be~n definitively averted by then.

Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, loc. 1018