Monday, April 11, 2011 - Bryce Canyon National Park, Bryce UT
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Hangin' in There, Zion National Park, April 11, 2011
Night camp
Site 36 - North Campground, Bryce Canyon National Park, Bryce UT
- Verizon cell phone and EVDO service - good signal
- Go to Bryce Canyon National Park website
- Locate Bryce Canyon North Campground on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
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.