Though admittedly, sometimes I like to add to the noise too..

I recall that you’ve written previously about anarchy. Where I live today is the closest I’ve experienced to an anarchy, and 99% of the time it is actually a lovely place to live, and little worry about people breathing down your neck. Yes there is a corrupt government and police who are looking for bribes, laws which are ignored when money is involved, and a lack of security over private property.

But on the other hand, the infrastructure and competence of the government is at a low enough level that they don’t bother harassing the individual who minds his own business. Contrast this to a “first world country” I recently went to where I was detained for an hour and had my passport seized before being released again without explanation. And where there are cameras literally everywhere and everything you do is being monitored and recorded. Fuck that, I’d rather have the freedom to carry on my life as long as I’m not bothering anyone than deal with a nameless, faceless, totalitarian body of assholes.

I’ve found that if you’re decent and fair to others, 99% of the fears about security and the dangers of anarchy disappear. Going back to the Musk and the bog brush boy phenomena, I think the reason the anarchy = apocalypse narrative is pushed so hard is because those types wouldn’t survive in it. They’re all selfish, cowardly, psychopathic cunts which NEED a massive bureaucracy and security force to isolate them from the masses of normal people they don’t understand.

Also some people just will not ever be able to cognise what you write. It’s too nuanced. Can you imagine a faux lumberjuck beardy soyboy having the first clue what you’re on about re: Harleys? I was a motocross kid so cruisers are lost on me but even then I totally understood your point.

That and you also cover things like energy, engines and cars which are just like ewwww and BORING.

Long may it continue.