Majority, Puns and All
Sam Aurelius Milam III
For
many years, indeed, for most of my life, I've studied human behavior within
human society. I've studied the governments that people have created
and the behaviors and actions of those governments. It's sad to note
that most of the useful alternative ideas that I've discovered with regard
to such things have been in works of fiction. Long-time readers of
this newsletter might have noticed that most such ideas that I've quoted
from other sources have been from works of fiction. What excludes
valid thinking about such things from the "real" world? I don't know,
but that seems to be the case.
For
many years, I've been attempting to restore liberty on this continent.
Maybe it was presumptuous of me ever to undertake such a grandiose mission
in life, but I did. I've been at it for a long time. This newsletter,
which will be 20 years old after this issue, is only one of my efforts.
By the nonsensical and arbitrary standards of our society, people born
at the time of the first issue of this newsletter might be adults.
The uncertainty about the majority of those people arises because there
isn't one single standard. For some things, a man becomes an adult
at 18. For some things, he becomes an adult at 21. It's been
a long time since I paid much attention to that particular nonsensical,
arbitrary aspect of our society. There might be other ages of majority
for other purposes. I don't know but, as time goes by, the difference
between being a minor and being an adult seems to be less important.
The difference between being a minor slave and being an adult slave is
largely academic.
Most
of my comments in this newsletter, over the years, have been critical.
Sometimes, I've been accused of being negative. I regard the provocation
of such an accusation as a nitwit detector. People don't need to
be informed of things that are good. They need to be informed of
things that are bad. It's the bad things that need to be corrected.
I didn't create the problems. I observed them and reported them.
Sometimes, I even suggested solutions. That makes me observant and
creative, not negative. A nitwit won't notice the difference.
Creative
or not, my efforts haven't accomplished much. Things are immeasurably
worse now then they were when I began. Government is more powerful,
more pervasive, more repressive, and more intrusive than it was when I
started. I haven't discovered any way to control government, to reduce
its power, to prevent it, or even to limit the harm that it causes.
People seem to be just as ignorant and unconcerned now as they ever were.
I haven't discovered any way to keep them from being stupid. Bad
government, and there isn't any other kind, seems to be an inevitable consequence
of meetings between more than two people at the same time and place.
The only intelligent response to bad government that I can suggest is to
abandon it. The logical consequence of that is personal sovereignty.
The worse a government becomes, the more difficult that is. If the
government is bad enough, then the practical consequence is more likely
to be prison than sovereignty. If so, then it's time to start shooting
back. Still, I haven't found any other response that seems useful.
So,
as the people who were born at the time of the first issue of this newsletter
slowly ooze across the ill-defined boundary between minority and majority,
I suggest that at least a minority of them should declare personal sovereignty.
It won't make things easier for them, as I can testify from personal experience.
Nevertheless, it's the right thing to do. They should divest themselves
of obligations to government, all of which were unilaterally imposed upon
them while they were minors. They might even give themselves new
names, since they didn't have any choice about the names that their parents
gave them. Then they can declare themselves to be sovereign.
Think of it as a one-man-at-a-time Declaration of Independence. We
don't necessarily need a majority but if enough of us do it, then a minority
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