Writings & Ramblings

"In the future,  it is not that we will want less, but if the experts are right, we will accept less, because we have no choice.  Our desires are constant.  Reality changes."
                                                                                      -- Lloyd Dobyns, NBC Nightly News 1984

"The minimal state is naturally legitimate due to its arising from a state of nature; its legitimacy is based on the fact that all agree it is better than anarchy.  A state that is more, bases its legitimacy on the support of interest groups, sometimes creating and supporting its own legitimacy through the creation of these interest groups."