On Wednesday, November 14, 2001, at 12:12 AM, Tim May wrote:
Meanwhile, grey burrowcrats are burrowing into their burrows in D.C., busily writing "rigorous and objective" reports on the benefits of welfare and why gun control is cost-effective. Feh. I hope to see the day when millions of them are gassed.
So did you discuss what was going to be done *after* the current government is destroyed? What sort of government will follow? Or was this just an exercise in later day bakuninism? I'm not (just) being a smart ass. If the necessary stuff was in place (fully anonymous digital currencies, blacknets, Bell's AP system etc.) the state would be gradually rendered ineffective, then die on the vine over a great enough time that people could adapt, institutions and attitudes could adjust. You can't just strike off a slaves chains and say "You're Free", that slave has to understand how to deal with freedom, he has to have the skills and thought processes to live without his "master" taking care of him. The vast majority of the people in this country lack one or more of skills and thought processes to live w/out an effective government. What are you going to do about that? Or is your purpose, like those Russian Nihilists, just to smash the state? -- "Remember, half-measures can be very effective if all you deal with are half-wits."--Chris Klein