Well, hey, Lebanese society is still lasting. Oh, right, I forgot: we're lasting IN SPITE of Govt shortcomings in pretty much every basic domain that Govt is supposed to handle with our tax money. Neshkor Allah for my having electrisickly right now. It's been one of them blinky days...
The Lebanese are pretty amazing: they can't live without grovelling to some leader, no matter how unworthy. And yet, they couldn't live if they didn't have a stubborn-as-a-Tijuana-mule allergy to following the laws, any sort of laws. We're still decently surviving, and reasonably sub-neurotic, after 33 and a half years of utter anarchy, precisely because we don't wait for the Govt to come and put the food into our mouths.
As a result, the Lebanese libertarian dystopia is perhaps the only country in the Arab world where the Internet isn't filtered. Nobody in power would be ready to spend money for doing that anyway. And they know darn well that freelance unauthorized ISPs would soon drive the official filtered ones to bankruptcy. Since the official ones are among the milk cows of leaders in power, we can't have that, can we?
What the...?!? I can't believe this! Can't find a single internet reference to the Lebanon Civil War official board game: "Play a militia leader, get your hands on the nation's income resources, and try to become ruler of the whole country." A classic that professional gaming magazines worldwide have heartily praised. Ah well, I'll just have to blog it myself. (sigh)
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Because "government knows best", right?
If no one is ever allowed to become an adult and make their own decisions, society won't last too long.
Well, hey, Lebanese society is still lasting.
Oh, right, I forgot: we're lasting IN SPITE of Govt shortcomings in pretty much every basic domain that Govt is supposed to handle with our tax money.
Neshkor Allah for my having electrisickly right now. It's been one of them blinky days...
The Lebanese are pretty amazing: they can't live without grovelling to some leader, no matter how unworthy. And yet, they couldn't live if they didn't have a stubborn-as-a-Tijuana-mule allergy to following the laws, any sort of laws.
We're still decently surviving, and reasonably sub-neurotic, after 33 and a half years of utter anarchy, precisely because we don't wait for the Govt to come and put the food into our mouths.
As a result, the Lebanese libertarian dystopia is perhaps the only country in the Arab world where the Internet isn't filtered. Nobody in power would be ready to spend money for doing that anyway. And they know darn well that freelance unauthorized ISPs would soon drive the official filtered ones to bankruptcy. Since the official ones are among the milk cows of leaders in power, we can't have that, can we?
What the...?!? I can't believe this! Can't find a single internet reference to the Lebanon Civil War official board game: "Play a militia leader, get your hands on the nation's income resources, and try to become ruler of the whole country." A classic that professional gaming magazines worldwide have heartily praised.
Ah well, I'll just have to blog it myself. (sigh)
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