Ramble
Drinking is a hobby that I sometimes engage in and when I induldge this hobby of mine I sometimes get off on little tangents of a political nature. So there I was Tuesday night, talking up some chick who had decided she was going to be a communist because the corrupt system just had to go. I thought that was cute. I believe in individuals and governments as extensions of those individuals but only to certain degrees. Then I found this neat little quote in an old heinlein book and it just makes sense. I'm a Rational Anarchist*.
*"A rational anarchist believes that concepts such as ‘state’ and ‘society’ and ‘government’ have no existence save as physically exemplified in the acts of self-responsible individuals. He believes that it is impossible to shift blame, share blame, distribute blame . . . as blame, guilt, responsibility are matters taking place inside human beings singly and nowhere else. But being rational, he knows that not all individuals hold his evaluations, so he tries to live perfectly in an imperfect world . . . aware that his effort will be less than perfect yet undismayed by self-knowledge of self-failure."
*"A rational anarchist believes that concepts such as ‘state’ and ‘society’ and ‘government’ have no existence save as physically exemplified in the acts of self-responsible individuals. He believes that it is impossible to shift blame, share blame, distribute blame . . . as blame, guilt, responsibility are matters taking place inside human beings singly and nowhere else. But being rational, he knows that not all individuals hold his evaluations, so he tries to live perfectly in an imperfect world . . . aware that his effort will be less than perfect yet undismayed by self-knowledge of self-failure."