This Memorable Day
R.A. Hettinga
rah at shipwright.com
Tue Nov 2 12:14:43 PST 2004
At 11:58 AM -0800 11/2/04, John Young wrote:
>Grant, who
>suicided himself with whiskey and self-pity,
Actually, he "suicided" himself with cigars, having died of throat cancer...
;-)
Seriously, any future crypto-anarchy / anarcho-capitalist society is
probably not going to succeed unless it can project *more* force than we
can project currently with force monopoly -- not less. That *doesn't* mean
centralized, but it certainly means *more*.
Peace Kills. Violence will always be conserved. More is more. :-).
Cheers,
RAH
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"... 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'
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