A thought just popped into me head.
I know a perfectly nice lady who works at the DMV...and probably thinks she's performing a public service.
Weird, huh?
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But, without the DMV, who would violate our right to travel? Who would unnecessarily register our vehicles? Who would give us unnecessary plates and pieces of plastic that say "this person is CLEARLY a safe driver?"
I like DMV. If not for those nice plates they give out my uncles would of never learned a skill while in prison. They also come in handy to identify my car when I've had to much to drink and can't tell it from all the other cars in the parking lot.
I think you all are missing the point the importance of the dmv is so that the dl can transition to a secure national i.d. It has nothing to do with the smokescreens, although parasites will fall back on whatever rationale is needed to make that phrase paperein bitte a reality for every aspect of life. That is the important thing, Phase 1 number everyone like cattle, tell them , assure them that the number will never be used to identify you- (chuckle here) - an individual free human being....You can probably guess the rest.
Joel,
No, she is sure she is performing a public service, and probably considers you a nice guy, even if you do occasionally spout wrong-headed wookie-suited nonsense.
Tam, ouch....
Seriously, I am convinced that we are sharing the planet with people who are not even experiencing reality on the same wavelength.
The sky really is a different color in their world.
Tam, I could not agree more...just teasing.
But, without the DMV, who would violate our right to travel? Who would unnecessarily register our vehicles? Who would give us unnecessary plates and pieces of plastic that say "this person is CLEARLY a safe driver?"
According to anarchocapitalist theory, the free market can handle that much less expensively.
I think you all are missing the point the importance of the dmv is so...
I don't see anybody missing that point.
Stephen,
I honestly had somebody look me in the eye and say "But if they suspend your license, then you won't be able to drive!"
And when I answered with "You know, they don't cut your hands and feet off when they suspend your license," they truly had no idea what I meant.
"According to anarchocapitalist theory, the free market can handle that much less expensively."
I think my brain just shorted a capacitor trying to compute that. :)
Tam, I don't doubt it one little bit. I own a small business and deal with the fools on a daily basis...
"According to anarchocapitalist theory, the free market can handle that much less expensively."
It's pretty much a given that Abbey never managed to rise to anarchocap theory - but you reminded me of something he wrote:
"Because freedom, not safety, is the highest good. Because the public roads should be wide open to all - children on tricycles, little old ladies in Eisenhower Plymouths, homicidal lesbians driving forty-ton Mack tractor-trailers. Let us have no favorites, no licenses, no goddamn rules of the road. Let every freeway be a free for all."
Like I said - obviously he never quite found a solid point to stand on - evidenced by his reference to 'public roads' (and a few other matters) - but I have to suspect his heart was in the right place.
Maybe I'm just sentimental about Abbey - but that's the brand of 'anarchism' I was exposed to some 25 years ago. Perhaps flawed - but it did somehow lead me to the 'here and now'...
PNO, I've read the two Abbey books I'm aware of. He was an environmentalist scold, which gets on my nerves - not that that means he was completely wrong. What I mostly got from him, though, was his essential elitism. He wanted all those chubby tourists to go away so he could enjoy the Utah desert, since he was the only one who could properly appreciate it, and anything that encouraged chubby tourists - paved roads, campgrounds, etc. - was evil. If that reasoning has any economic or moral justification, I'm unaware of it even though I might have felt the same in his position.
I'm more in sympathy with his attitude toward big hydroelectric projects that inundate glorious canyons, but I can't justify the feeling in any really rational way. People build cities, and cities use power. Those of us in the way need to find ways to adapt, because we're not going to change it.
I do certainly agree with the statement, "...freedom, not safety, is the highest good." But I don't think he defended it - or even explored it - very well.
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