Steve Thompson wrote:
c.f. "Take back the night", et. cetera. (And put it where?)
Anyhow, isn't insurrection illegal or something? ISTR reading about the natural right of the corrupt state to exist unconditionally, and it's obligation to crush any question of change for any reason.
The structure of the state in fact defines its identity as a 'person'; and since changeing the state structure could be viewed as the murder of the state's personality, the state has the right, nay, obligation to preserve its identity unchanged. (Isn't this pretty much polysci 101 material?)
Regards,
Steve
Yep, the state fights to preserve its "life" while the people suffer their own. The mistake of top down thinking lies in the inability to really model large populations with rules, too much of the action happens at the fine grained level of every day staying alive. When change comes, it will happen as the cummulative effects of millions of stuborn folk who subvert excessive authourity, 'cause they need to. As the state tries to squeeze more gold out of the untaxed ecconomy ordinary people will swarm to new work-arounds --bob cpunks write scripts