Sunday, December 2, 2007
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9:05 am. As I write this here in the Wal-Mart parking lot I just looked up and noticed smoke coming from the chimney of a restaurant next door - they must be stoking up the fires for a barbeque. Yep, Uncle Sam's Barbecue "try our slab & two sides - $18.95."
11:08 am. Time to hit the road. Church is out - my boradband connection just slowed to a crawl. Everyone must be on their cell phones catching up on all they missed while at services and making plans to get some of that barbecue. I'm off to the Barber Motorsports Museum.
Later. The Barber was well worth the visit. I spent the afternoon and skimmed a lot of it. Fifteen hundred is a lot of motorcycles to take in!
Night camp: Wal-Mart in Leeds AL
Emergent democracy
Culture brings us together, usually at a very small scale through mutual belief, trust and common interest. It educes, not compels, behavior. Culture codified is law. It is as inevitable as the day the night that as scale increases, law increases. Law enforced is government. Government does not, in the main, educe behavior, but compels it. Democratic or otherwise, rarely, very rarely, does any concentration of power or wealth desire to see subjects well informed, truly educated, their privacy ensured or their discourse uninhibited. Those are the very things that power and wealth fear most. Old forms of government have every reason to operate in secret, while denying just that privilege to subjects. The people are to be minutely scrutinized while power is to be free of examination.