There is one meme that most people already know but need to be reminded of: an innocent man said: "we can't worship money and legalisms." and they killed him for it. I'd even say that outside of cities, people operate on the NAP without knowing it. We have the tools to govern ourselves. Something I wrote down came up last night: local elections matter. I suppose if you're in a big city full of dissimilar people, it's pretty much pooched, but small and especially medium-sized towns have the ability to put their foot down. Cities should be quarantined anyway. (or at least not have territorial voting power but that's a whole other story)
This reminds me of an interesting and relevant quote:
If you want to make something "thrilling", you make it forbidden. Tell me, what's the most loudly forbidden thing, the most sensationalized thing, now coming at you across the airwaves? This may have all just sounded like a moralistic sermon from Rev. Jerry Falwell. I will always insist that I am the LEAST moralistic person in that I have no superstitious fears or hang-ups typically connected with a reactionary society. Patterns are merely there to be observed and studied, in a detached manner, so that we may be able to use them for our own purposes. And we see how our Enemy is using them, literally orchestrating them, towards its own peculiar ends. It's that end that we don't like.
-- James Mason, Siege [Vol. XIII, #12 -Dec, 1984]
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