You have to be something of an optimist, I suppose, to be much of an anarchist. Now, I'm one who believes that there are a lot more good folks on the planet than rascals. The truly rotten ones, however, aren't often satisfied with taking more than their share. They tend to devote effort and energy towards depriving the riffraff, that's us, of the basic necessities to sustain dignity, sometimes life, itself.
If Mr. Bezos would pay his employees a living wage, he might save a few bucks on bodyguards. Where's the fun in that, though.
Seems to me that a part of the problem, if we can agree that it's a problem, is that those scumbags are only interested in impressing those other scumbags. Now that intelligence, education and honesty are ridiculed, we're working on putting the word "empathy" in that part of the dictionary where we've managed to put "liberal" and "socialist" and "woke." Words merely mean what those guys say they mean, never mind what you learned in school. Turns out alternative definitions are like alternative facts.
If the good guys have a bomb and the bad guys have a bomb, how do you suppose that's ever gonna work out?
Oh, I'm still betting on the decent folks, just not in the short run.
Give us peace on earth and end this dreadful, dreadful war.
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