Comments on: Tyranny in your head http://anarchyinyourhead.com/2007/10/30/tyranny-in-your-head/ The Revolution Will Be Doodled! Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:25:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dinnerboi http://anarchyinyourhead.com/2007/10/30/tyranny-in-your-head/comment-page-1/#comment-5493 Dinnerboi Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:47:46 +0000 http://anarchyinyourhead.com/2007/10/30/tyranny-in-your-head/#comment-5493 Ideological Statism for the win! Ideological Statism for the win!

]]> By: David http://anarchyinyourhead.com/2007/10/30/tyranny-in-your-head/comment-page-1/#comment-4995 David Mon, 03 Aug 2009 20:33:24 +0000 http://anarchyinyourhead.com/2007/10/30/tyranny-in-your-head/#comment-4995 @Silent But the only power the president has is the power that people project onto him. If people don't recognize a government, what makes it a government? Just some pieces of paper claiming so and the government officials. I could make up some of those papers myself, and get a few friends together and call ourselves the government, but until the people recognize that authority, it means absolutely nothing. @Silent

But the only power the president has is the power that people project onto him. If people don’t recognize a government, what makes it a government? Just some pieces of paper claiming so and the government officials. I could make up some of those papers myself, and get a few friends together and call ourselves the government, but until the people recognize that authority, it means absolutely nothing.

]]> By: Anton Sherwood http://anarchyinyourhead.com/2007/10/30/tyranny-in-your-head/comment-page-1/#comment-2426 Anton Sherwood Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:29:52 +0000 http://anarchyinyourhead.com/2007/10/30/tyranny-in-your-head/#comment-2426 I once got into an argument with someone (whose name I've forgotten) who said we should never say <i>the president</i> because to do so is to give him power in our minds; we should always say <i>Bill Clinton</i>. I said, I have no quarrel with Bill Clinton as such; my quarrel is with the presidency, no matter who occupies it. I once got into an argument with someone (whose name I’ve forgotten) who said we should never say the president because to do so is to give him power in our minds; we should always say Bill Clinton. I said, I have no quarrel with Bill Clinton as such; my quarrel is with the presidency, no matter who occupies it.

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