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Entry: Sept. 11, 2001: Adrift Among the Dead Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/sept_11_2001_adrift_among_the_dead#4879 Post contents: @Rich indeed, secession is freedom. The problem is that people who secede do not know when to stop. I mean you've seceded and have started on your own independent way, and suddenly you are faced by a secession of your own, as some people within the territory you control feel themselves mistreated by you, and unable to influence you to change your ways. After all, if one secession is good, a second one might be twice as good.. The same problem happens with overthrow of goverments. Somebody exlained the problem thus: People who overthro governments have wildly different ideas of what they want form a different governemtn. Some of those desires are contradictory. There is no governmetn which can satisfy all thosse claims, so most people end up disappointed. As the new govrenemnt does not have much legitimacy (or because people have gotten the idea that if a governemnt is not of their liking they can overthrow it), it tends to be overthrown too, and the next one, and the next one. The result quite often is not an anarchist utopia, but an all-out civil war where the contradictory claims are settled at gunpoint. It is just one more historic paradox... Sent at: 2008 08 21