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From: tedrick@ernie.BERKELEY.EDU (Tom Tedrick)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Government and stability
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Date: Thu, 31-Oct-85 16:16:34 EST
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>> [ ... ] 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 ...