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ERIK v. KUEHNELT-LEDDIHN

The urge for security is a profoundly human trait. The Lord’s Prayer, rightly translated, does not say, “Give us this day our daily bread,” but “Give us this day tomorrow’s bread,” which some theologians quite sensibly interpret as the hope for bread on the coming days as well, so that we need not live from hand to mouth. Yet, when speaking of material security anywhere in the Western world, the trend has been to treat the individual as totally improvident and to entrust his or her security to Nietzsche’s “coldest of all monsters,” the state.

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ERIK v. KUEHNELT-LEDDIHN

The urge for security is a profoundly human trait. The Lord’s Prayer, rightly translated, does not say, “Give us this day our daily bread,” but “Give us this day tomorrow’s bread,” which some theologians quite sensibly interpret as the hope for bread on the coming days as well, so that we need not live from hand to mouth. Yet, when speaking of material security anywhere in the Western world, the trend has been to treat the individual as totally improvident and to entrust his or her security to Nietzsche’s “coldest of all monsters,” the state.