At 9:43 AM +0100 9/15/05, ken wrote:
Do you really think that politics only exists where there is a state?
Agreed, on this one. In 10th century Iceland, an ostensible anarcho-capitalist society with exactly *one* "public" employee(1) *everybody* was a lawyer -- and murder was a tort. See David Friedman's "The Machinery of Freedom", and any good Icelandic saga, my favorite being "Njall's Saga", for details Cheers, RAH Who especially liked Friedman's "penny game", for a good example of how government works. -------- (1) A guy whose job it was to recite one quarter of the agreed-upon laws once a year at a summer solstice fair called the Allthing, and if a law wasn't recited after four years, it was considered rescinded. -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'