Duncan writes: | (Might I suggest that we adopt the typographic convention of using an upper | case 'G' to spell Government when we are speaking of The Great Enemy and a | lower case 'g' to refer to things like self government or corporate | government or engine government.) As Eric likes to point out, the Government is not a huge, monolithic enemy. It is a multitude of huge enemies. If you think of it as a single entity, you will often miss the subtelties in its actions. If you don't understand why your enemy is doing what they are doing, you will have trouble opposing it. If you talk about the actions of specific agencies, such as the FCC, DEA, NSA, etc, you will see that much of their motivation comes from bureaucratic turf wars. Seeing 'Government' as your great enemy is a damaging misnomer. I'm not arguing *for* government here, I'm simply pointing out that seeing government as a monolith is like seeing any large entity as a monolith. Its really made up of small parts that interact in strange & unpredicatble ways. Adam