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"troll"
Eye of the beholder.
*shrug*
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"a narcissist"
Possibly.
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"who obviously does not understand how a 21st century (or 20th for that matter) society and economy works. His worldview is only realistically applicable to pre-agricultural society."
Your evidences to support the assertion(s), please.
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"your point of view is within the total political spectrum"
Mebbe so...haven't had an interest in finding sympathetic souls.
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"Of course we benefit from having our federal gov't."
Sure. I think, however, there might be better ways to get the same benefits.
As I wrote about elsewhere in this forum: proxyhood is preferable to governance.
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"Think of all the natural resources we have: coal, gas, oil, timber, prime farmland, big cities with expensive infrastructure."
All had by way of private concerns and private concerns in conjunction with local government. Pretty much all those things could be had by way of proxies.
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"If we had no military, etc., we'd be conquered by some country in a heartbeat."
Certainly you need peace keepers and defenders. Question is: can you get the same or better service by way of proxies? That is: must defense and peace keeping come from an overarching 'governor', or, can the same be had by way of local proxies coordinating with other proxies?
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"fuck you, I got mine"
Not what I'm saying at all, but it does raise a question.
What exactly is wrong with 'fuck you, I got mine'?
Example: Joe and Henry are in the wilderness. There is exactly enough water to get one of the men into town. Joe has possession of that water. Henry, understandably, wants some. Joe says 'no, sir...if I share, we both die...that's senseless'.
Joe is sayin' 'fuck you, I got mine'.
Within the context of my example: why is Joe wrong?
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"A government funded research experiment"
What you mean to say: a taxpayer funded research experiment. Government is merely the collector, conduit, and director of monies, it ponies up not a dime of its own ('cause it has nuthin' of its own to call its own).
And: who did the research?
Who currently maintains the net infrastructure (both tangible and intangible)?
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