Friday, February 19, 2010
The Stack manifesto
Aside from the parts about his personal tax troubles, everything Stack wrote was valid, true and correct. A perfect diagnosis of our current troubles.
Unfortunately he chose a bad solution, under pressure from other factors (debt, marital problems, etc).
Small-scale violence doesn't bother a tyranny. In fact it often makes things worse, leads to tighter clampdowns.
Unless you can destroy most of the country (as we did with the Krauts and Japs) the only way to bring down a tyranny is to encourage internal collapse.
The Soviet tyranny was strengthened by our stupid wars in Korea and Vietnam. It finally collapsed after Reagan yanked out its internal supports and broke the confidence of its leaders.
I'm a lot more patient than Stack. (Partly because I long ago arranged my life to avoid debt and marital problems; long ago figured out that credit cards and women give a moment of heaven followed by years of hell.)
Now that large pieces of our tyranny are collapsing from within, now that the Goddess of Wall Street and Government is melting! melting! melting!, I want to be around to watch the conclusion of this miserable and monstrous tragedy. ¶ 6:09 AM
Unfortunately he chose a bad solution, under pressure from other factors (debt, marital problems, etc).
Small-scale violence doesn't bother a tyranny. In fact it often makes things worse, leads to tighter clampdowns.
Unless you can destroy most of the country (as we did with the Krauts and Japs) the only way to bring down a tyranny is to encourage internal collapse.
The Soviet tyranny was strengthened by our stupid wars in Korea and Vietnam. It finally collapsed after Reagan yanked out its internal supports and broke the confidence of its leaders.
I'm a lot more patient than Stack. (Partly because I long ago arranged my life to avoid debt and marital problems; long ago figured out that credit cards and women give a moment of heaven followed by years of hell.)
Now that large pieces of our tyranny are collapsing from within, now that the Goddess of Wall Street and Government is melting! melting! melting!, I want to be around to watch the conclusion of this miserable and monstrous tragedy. ¶ 6:09 AM
