A country of one…I like the way you’re thinking now! But, I’d do it without the country and create it as merely one sovereign individual.

I’ll consider the political office angle. I just see it as becoming part of the machine, which concerns me deeply. As always, I appreciate the thoughts and discussion. I realize I’m a tough nut to crack but I hope you know that I don’t bring these things up just to be obstinately combative.

Government employees (at all levels) account for less than 8% of the population, which seems to me to be a rather small group of people who are determining, interpreting, and enforcing the rules for everyone else. That number includes full-time and part-time government employees as well as all lawyers currently licensed and active in the United States. I certainly wouldn’t want to live in a neighborhood of 100 properties where 8 of them got to decide the rules governing all 100 properties. Now, I realize that relatively speaking that neighborhood would be better than living in another neighborhood where 1 owner decided everything, but if everyone has equal ownership interests in their respective properties (e.g. 100%) I’m not sure what right any property owner has to dictate any rules.

I can’t understand the need for me to explain a system with which to replace the current order given the fact that if it was possible for any one person to explain how it should all work then the representative process would be entirely unnecessary. Asking for a better system to be designed to avoid “anarchy” (I assume you’re using this term merely to mean chaos, rather than the absence of government) is akin to a person in the antebellum south asking an abolitionist, “But where are all these slaves going to find jobs? It would be chaos if they were free and had to go out and find something to do on their own!” (I’m not using this analogy to cast aspersions, merely to make the point that freedom cannot logically be condemned using fear of the unknown.) The beauty of human society is that we are a self-organizing species when given the freedom to operate. There will always be disputes but processes would arise that did not rest upon initiating force.

I’ve previously considered a career in politics but given my current beliefs I don’t think it makes sense to again endorse the system by further ensconcing myself in its power. There’s a logical disconnect in using the system to fight the system that I can’t get past, due to its nearly wholesale failure as a political strategy over the past century. That’s why I’m looking for a way to work outside the system. Maybe I should say I do not want to be a cog in ANYone else’s wheel.

From what I have heard from you so far, in trying to figure out your path in life and law, it sounds like you do not want to be part of arguing for or against the various laws and rules, but you want to be shaping them. I think that is a lofty position for anybody to aspire to. You get there by transitioning to elective office, working yourself up, and fighting at the base of where this originates to reach consensus only by mutual consent and argument. It is not easy, but it is admirable in my book. Have you thought about a career in politics? Because whether I agree with you or not on the broader issues, it sounds like to me that you have a perspective and position to offer. You should try that.

Lawyers would still exist without the system because there would always be a need for people who are educated in the art of arguing for a given position. Nothing about disagreement requires the system to exist as it does, it is simply easier to accept the system and say, “Well, I can at best change this little part of the injustice to make it better”. But how can one who fundamentally disagrees with the system’s premises use the system’s power?

The problem with the system as it exists is that it has been devised and executed by an exceedingly small group of people who have ultimately wielded an immense and immoral power over the entirety of the human population, without any justification. And the population has stood idly by, because it’s easier to do nothing and go along with evil than it is to try to stop it.

You have got to have the healthiest attitude of anyone in the blogosphere. Wish there were more like you.

Carolyn