It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream. - Kim Stanley Robinson

It is always the teacher who must learn the most … or else nothing real has happened in the exchange.

How was it that destruction could be so beautiful? Was there something in the scale of it? Was there some shadow in people, lusting for it? Or was it just a coincidental combination of the elements, the final proof that beauty has no moral dimension?

Even if you want no state, or a minimal state, then you still have to argue it point by point. Especially since most minimalists want to keep exactly the economic and police system that keeps them privileged. That’s libertarians for you—anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.