On 3/15/26 15:46, David Johnson wrote:
> Hi Terry.
>
>> Piper wrote one thing that struck me as "Spooky.":
>> -----
>> "It may just be,” he added, “that there is something fundamentally
>> unworkable about government itself. As long as Homo sapiens terra is a
>> wild animal, which he has always been and always will be until he
>> evolves into something different in a million or so years, maybe a
>> workable system of government is a political-science impossibility,
>> just as transmutation of elements was a physical-science impossibility
>> as long as they tried to do it by chemical means.”
>> ------
>> Something to think about at least.
>
> Sure, but let's not forget Bentrick's rejoinder to Trask: "Then we'll
> just have to make it work the best way we can, and when it breaks down,
> hope the next try will work a little better, for a little longer."

Can't say I find much to disagree with there.

Maybe perfect isn't on the menu.  But "better" probably is.