[geeks] Liber-fascism
Phil Stracchino
alaric at metrocast.net
Sat Oct 25 16:58:17 CDT 2008
Phil Stracchino wrote:
> der Mouse wrote:
>> If you don't like governments, I suggest you leave. Somalia might be a
>> good place; there isn't much of a government there.
>
> To be fair, Somalia and Ethiopia used to have a perfectly good and
> working system of government and law, before we well-meaning Europeans
> came in and destroyed it to replace it with "a real system of
> government" because we were too ignorant to recognize that they already
> had one.
Actually, let me revise that slightly ... it wasn't so much ignorance
as "When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" tunnel
vision.
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