[90086] in Cypherpunks
Re: Br'er Tim and the Bug Hole
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Schear)
Sat Nov 15 00:58:43 1997
In-Reply-To: <1f6c13f75e895afd9ec8f5d61ed19ff9@squirrel>
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 11:23:12 -0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: Steve Schear <schear@lvdi.net>
Reply-To: Steve Schear <schear@lvdi.net>
>Injustice happens everyday. The next time you find yourself at Burger
>King stuffing yourself with greasy slop, think of the millions of people
>in Africa who are slowly starving to death. Injustice, yes, but what
>are you going to do about it? Anything?
>
>The fact is you can't do anything, even if you wanted to. And because
>of that we all become reactionary, angered, resentful, violent. We
>perpetuate the disintegration of mankind, of ourselves.
>
>No people in their right mind should bow down and lick the boots of their
>oppressors. But neither should they kill them either. The intelligent
>action is to show the oppressors the errors in their ways. Every human=20
>being, even our "enemies" have a mind that is not completely devoid of
>reason. The sooner we show them a better way of living, the sooner we can=
=20
>move toward it. Then the possibility for an end to the injustices that
>surround us becomes more available.
Many injustices follow from form and scale of government. I won't be the=
first to point out that as the number of people, geography and ethnic=
diversity increase governance becomes ever more difficult and as is the=
balancing of individual liberty over the "overiding interests of the=
society." The solution is clear, the method of its emergence is not. =
Smaller geo-political units. I doubt that our pressing social and=
political problems can be adequately delt with until the scale of=
governance is changed, but this requires those in the center to give up=
much and historically this has rarely if ever happened without bloodshed.
--Steve
