[ExI] 78 percent don't trust big government -- well, DUH!

Damien Broderick thespike at satx.rr.com
Thu Apr 22 17:23:14 UTC 2010


On 4/22/2010 3:01 AM, Giulio Prisco wrote:

> How to run things without government? I don't know of any alternative
> system that can work in practice. If there is a viable system without
> government (or with a minimally small government), how to implement it
> in practice?

Cyril Kornbluth wrote a rather famous novel titled THE SYNDIC, which 
describes the replacement of govt by the Mafia (as I recall); it reads 
like a utopia, although Kornbluth meant it as a bitter satire... Might 
be just the thing for Italy.

Damien Broderick



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