[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.



-- 
  Phil Stracchino, CDK#2     DoD#299792458     ICBM: 43.5607, -71.355
  alaric at caerllewys.net   alaric at metrocast.net   phil at co.ordinate.org
         Renaissance Man, Unix ronin, Perl hacker, Free Stater
                 It's not the years, it's the mileage.



More information about the geeks mailing list