Salon.... lol
It is salon...
Here is the intent of one of the founders.
Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.
Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
One of the others said that the best government is the least, being local and then state. Then way at the bottom is the federal.
I think this makes more sense than that: La-bibbida-bibba-dum La-bibbida-do.
There are some great things to a government in a nation. When they are sparsest, they are best.
There are some terrible things to a government in a nation. When they are the most onerous, they are the most terrifying.
You may quote me.
In other words, anarchy is unstable. You get rid of one government, and the people (in self-defense) must create SOMETHING to replace it, something that will organize protection against random predators.
When Rome fell, there were no more Roman legions to maintain order and hunt down bandits and raiders. So feudalism had to come into being, where the local rich man created strongholds to protect the harvests against raiders, and hired armed men to protect the territory.
So if we abolish the government we'll be overrun by zombies? Oh wait, if the government is abolished all those government workers will be set loose. Makes sense, actually.
Destroy civilization and rebuild it along Marxist principals.
It is an insane idea - and not just because Marx was himself a loon.
Our civilization takes thousands of years to develop The American republic was once the culmination, the acme of three thousands years of Greco-Roman, Judeo-Christian, Anglo-American cultural advancements.
It is now being destroyed over the course of mere decades.
It cannot be replace overnight — not by anything other than a Frankenstein's monster of a society.
Winston Churchill was eerily prescient: “...the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science.”
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So far as I know, most libertarians have no problem with a state that protects lives and property.
They even think such a minimal state would perform those tasks better than the kind of government we have now.
Wilson is one of those SF geeks, who apparently aren't any better at attacking libertarianism than they are at defending it.
Truly trying my best to understand that last line in a terribly written article and the best I can do is come up with an analogy: To experience the birth of an effective alternative to our current law breaking regime, we must first tear down the GOPe tent before we can re build a true Conservative party.
“From a certain perspective, the state is our greatest invention...”
Liberals. Pffft...