Maggie's Farm

We are a commune of inquiring, skeptical, politically centrist, capitalist, anglophile, traditionalist New England Yankee humans, humanoids, and animals with many interests beyond and above politics. Each of us has had a high-school education (or GED), but all had ADD so didn't pay attention very well, especially the dogs. Each one of us does "try my best to be just like I am," and none of us enjoys working for others, including for Maggie, from whom we receive neither a nickel nor a dime. Freedom from nags, cranks, government, do-gooders, control-freaks and idiots is all that we ask for.

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Monday, December 10. 2012

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"There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.”


Daniel Webster


"The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire."


Robert A. Heinlein


- Both via Neoneo's Twas Ever Thus

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That really puts the desire to control others in perspective.
#1 altered states on 2012-12-10 12:04 (Reply)
While agreeing with Bob, I have always felt that you could also divide the human race into those who accept control and those who will not. Will work with or for another when agreeable and under previously stated conditions, but will not go along with one-sided or arbitrary appropriation of control.

On my old (farts) Telecom team, a new, young manager tried to exert his authority, finding that it was only imaginary.
As Bubba told him (to his face) "Go away, we're unmanageable."
He was soon gone.
#2 John the River (Link) on 2012-12-10 20:00 (Reply)
There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern.

Today those who mean to govern are not men except by their genitalia, and sometimes not even that.
#3 ErisGuy on 2012-12-11 06:10 (Reply)

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