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From: Matthew James Gering <mgering@ecosystems.net> Subject: RE: How to solve the tax problem w/o anarchy or force (fwd) Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 17:25:45 -0800
I don't think many cpunks (and other freedom loving people) are necessarily nihilistic so much as they have come to the conclusion that to ignore and/or subvert government has higher probability of success than trying to reform it -- much to the demise of the Libertarian Party.
There is certainly little historical evidence to support such a thesis.
The whole cryptography and geodesic communications being the bane of the nation-state theme tends to support this idea.
Cryptography is the bane of anyone who wants to listen in, it's not just nation-states that get hit with it. As to geodesic communications, it's been around a lot longer than the Internet and nation states are still here. ____________________________________________________________________ Lawyers ask the wrong questions when they don't want the right answers. Scully (X-Files) The Armadillo Group ,::////;::-. James Choate Austin, Tx /:'///// ``::>/|/ ravage@ssz.com www.ssz.com .', |||| `/( e\ 512-451-7087 -====~~mm-'`-```-mm --'- --------------------------------------------------------------------