Eventually I learned that the Church is run solely for the benefit of the priesthood, not for the good of our people. But I learned it too late. - Robert A. Heinlein
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Eventually I learned that the Church is run solely for the benefit of the priesthood, not for the good of our people. But I learned it too late.
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Robert A. Heinlein
Robert Anson Heinlein (7 July 1907 – 8 May 1988) was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of science fiction of the 20th Century.
Wherever there is power and mass to manipulate, Man can live.
I think that describes me, too — still a democrat not because I love the Common People and not because I think democracy is so successful (look around you) but, because in a lifetime of thinking about it and learning all that I could, I haven't found any other political organization that worked as well. As for libertarian, I've been one all my life, a radical one. You might use the term "philosophical anarchist" or "autarchist" about me, but "libertarian" is easier to define and fits well enough.
“People have a funny habit of taking as ‘natural’ whatever they are used to—but there hasn’t been any ‘natural’ environment, the way they mean it, since men climbed down out of trees.”