Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance.

[Looking from outside]

I'm listening to that audio book and it's making me ask the opinion of those that have read or listened to it? I'm at the part where the author is talking about a completely different way of teaching, where the grades are not the goal but rather the quality? How does or could that book relate to a free state project?

[Cognitive Dissident]

Perhaps it's not about the laws, but the morality? (respect for property and sovereignty)

[Looking from outside]

Or maybe more? Like when he comments about when people want change they think they have to change the government when, in fact, no change can happen until it is the people themselves that change. Simply put(?) he puts the blame for a state of affairs not on a government or system but where I think it should belong, right on the lap of the people themselves. An other thought. I guess he is saying that the system is us, was us all the time. We have repudiated our power to change things by believing the government will do for us what ever is supposedly needed to make things better, what ever better supposedly means?

[Turd Ferguson]

Thats pretty much what Stefan Molly-knox says too.

[alaric89]

I never find Stefan quite that confusing.

[Cognitive Dissident]

I see it sort of like "market failure," in which one person in the market makes the decision that appears to be good for himself, but in reality is bad for everyone, including himself.  The choice to support the state instead of resting resisting it is like that, because if everyone resists, we win, but everyone's worried about what will happen to him, individually, if he does.  It's a sort of "government failure" twin to "market failure."