Don’t Vote

Now back to my alleged Quietism, which is presumably not commendable. Here’s the rub: It’s not that I think mere men and women are incapable of governing a nation state of 300 million because they don’t possess the wisdom and/or divine authority to do so; it’s not even that I believe there may be a more perfect system of government that would equitably serve a nation state of 300 million that we just haven’t imagined yet; it’s that I don’t believe a nation state of 300 million is governable in an equitable way. What’s more, even if such a system were possible, the current political and electoral system is so bankrupt, that, as we say here in Maine, “you can’t get there from here.” You cannot combat alienation by means of alienated forms of struggle.

- Montag, killing it

I don’t believe that a nation state of 300 million people is governable in an equitable way, SO I OPT OUT AS BEST I CAN.

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