Neither to Rule or be Ruled: Adventures in Intentional Living

Friday, June 04, 2004

I survived the presentations at BHA. Wonderful opportunities, and I believe that the information was somewhat understood and appreciated.

Short blog today as I am heading out to the Great Wall and other sites. Yes I have been here for 6-7 weeks and have not been to the Great Wall, Forbidden City etc. Now is the time to start doing some of these things. The part we are going to is in the north east corner of the Beijing district (think LARGE county) about 90 km from Beijing. We are also planning on hitting the Ming Tombs and the Marco Polo bridge...

All the best.

Brian

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Quotes of Relevance:

"Whenever a man casts a longing eye on (political) offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct"

--- Thomas Jefferson

"Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others."

— Edward Abbey

"How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it."
— Edward Abbey

"I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe — "That government is best which governs not at all"; and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have. "
— Henry David Thoreau (Civil Disobedience)

"If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth--certainly the machine will wear out… but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn."
— Henry David Thoreau

"A man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of life getting his living."
— Henry David Thoreau