Well, yes, they were quite lucky. In the meantime, the first thing that has to
go is any tolerance of unwillingness to make the necessary choices. There are
places one could go. It's just that this particular society has made things so
easy for people simply to ingore, and even thumb their noses at the laws, social
contract, and associated rights of others, that they're too coddled to go where
they wouldn't offend anyone by their behavior.
That's why I suggest more radical ways of dealing with them.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shawn T. Rutledge" <ecloud_at_bigfoot.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 7:38 PM
Subject: Re: Celebration (intended to be offensive, possible humor)
> And those folks were darn lucky that there was a big bunch of land available
> which hadn't been claimed by modern governments yet. Now these conditions
> largely don't exist anymore. The settling of the New World could only be
> done once; thank goodness it turned out as well as it did (for everyone but
> the natives, at least...) I think a lot of people forget this when they
> compare things in the US to things in other countries, or things now to
> things then. It was a unique time and place, and there was a huge
> advantage to being a young, fresh, new society with so much unclaimed land.
>
> Some day there will be new frontiers on other planets but until then,
> I don't see such an easy escape from the existing governments. Any future
> revolutions we have in the US will have all the same problems of revolutions
> in older established countries, say, France or Russia; that of trying to
> cast off the old ways and being unable to really completely start over,
> because the past is always there to haunt you.
>
> On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 07:01:31PM -0600, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> > Not at all, sir! In fact it's a good illustration of how things ought
rightly
> > to be. If you don't want to obey the laws of one society, then leave that
> > society and join or build another. The means by which this is done vary
widely,
> > and if you think that it's appropriate, for example, that, say, pot smokers,
a
> > substantial share of the criminal element in the U.S, have what it takes to
(1)
> > go elsewhere and start over, or (2) overthrow, presumably with violence, the
> > existing system, then they should have at it, taking their chances as they
go.
> > What's wrong is for them simply to thumb their noses at the law and the
society
> > that established those laws, still reaping all the benefits, yet violating
the
> > basic social contract.
> >
> > After all, the Americans' distaste for English social standards, whether it
was
> > for the British unwarranted taxes or British disdain for the working stiff,
was
> > what "impelled them to the separation" in the words of one of the
perpetrators.
>
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