Hypnosis is a state of human consciousness involving focused attention and reduced peripheral awareness and an enhanced capacity to respond to suggestion. The term may also refer to an art, skill, or act of inducing hypnosis. Theories explaining what occurs during hypnosis fall into two groups.
Libertarian paternalism is an oxymoron because it is totally at odds with the second argument. Okay fine, you are not forcing anyone to do anything. But you are still assuming that top men can properly deduce what the right things people ought to be doing are.
A fundamental characteristic of libertarian thinking is a deep skepticism of government power. Libertarianism and liberalism both arose in the West, where the division of power between spiritual and temporal rulers had been greater than in most other parts of the world.