Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!lsuc!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!ernie!tedrick From: tedrick@ernie.BERKELEY.EDU (Tom Tedrick) Newsgroups: net.politics.theory Subject: Re: Government and stability Message-ID: <10857@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 16:16:34 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.10857 Posted: Thu Oct 31 16:16:34 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Nov-85 22:00:29 EST References: <1473@teddy.UUCP> <28200189@inmet.UUCP> <1496@teddy.UUCP> <131@ucbjade.BERKELEY.EDU> <1542@teddy.UUCP> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: tedrick@ernie.UUCP (Tom Tedrick) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 15 >> [ ... ] Governments are neither necessary nor sufficient for >>stability. Consider the Louisiana Territory before the last wave of >>immigrants (whites) showed up. A very stable society, with little or no >>government above the intertribal level. Now, consider the same Territory >>after the US government has moved in to stabilize things. [ ... ] >When the white men came and destroyed everything, this may have been >bad for the Indian, but, in the long run, it was good for the white >man, [ ... ] The long run isn't over yet. If the "white man" engages in a nuclear war it won't have been good for anyone ... (well maybe for the rats and cockroaches.) The "white man" could learn something from those he has conquered ...