13 Feb 2023 7:42 am
Civiliation can be such a royal pain in the ***. Civilization requires those living within the civilization to realize they can't do whatever the **** it might be that they want to do. Early on this country realized that there was no way to get the food from the farms to the towns and cities at a reasonable price and before it begins to rot, without paved roads...and that the only entity with the ability to provide a system of paved roads was the central government.RedheadedStranger » 11 Feb 2023, 11:04 pm » wrote: ↑ I have to believe that there is a segment of that 20% that simply decided to disconnect (as much as possible anyway) from the matrix as well though.
I know I did.
I like the barter system myself.
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“For most of human history, freedom had to be at least suffered for, if not died for, and that raised its value to something almost sacred. In modern democracies, however, an ethos of public sacrifice is rarely needed because freedom and survival are more or less guaranteed. That is a great blessing but allows people to believe that any sacrifice at all--rationing water during a drought, for example--are forms of government tyranny. They are no more forms of tyranny than rationing water on a lifeboat. The idea that we can enjoy the benefits of society while owing nothing in return is literally infantile. Only children owe nothing.”
― Sebastian Junger, Freedom