by Pops » Mon 03 Mar 2014, 10:00:48
Wishing for an end to government is pretty silly, LOL, there will always be government of one kind or another. Somalia has a government, it's the toughest guy on your block. So unless you're the toughest guy on the block - and the next block and the next, I can't figure why you'd not want a government and the rule of law rather than anarchy.
Like in any other area of life there are good people and bad people, why would government be different? What is most amusing is the folks who have made their fortune protected by government and enabled by the infrastructure paid for by those who came before but who now say that government is evil and should be eliminated because they want to keep their take.
Anyway, governments are a "condition" only to the extent that they do not change but since they can change rapidly, I personally put them in the "events" category.
My cynical take on "sustainability" (whatever that means) is that we won't transition to such a state until we come to grips with the fact that the current situation is in fact unsustainable and like I've always said, it's the getting to that point that is gonna hurt. But the real question is, will we ever admit our situation is unsustainable? And will we just let all the unsustainable stuff go and march bravely into the elbow-greased future or will we cling to the past and fight for it tooth nail right up to the end?
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The legitimate object of government, is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but can not do, at all, or can not, so well do, for themselves -- in their separate, and individual capacities.
-- Abraham Lincoln, Fragment on Government (July 1, 1854)