“The most dangerous enemy is that which no one fears.”
“En tehlikeli düşman kimsenin korkmadığını düşmandır.”
Sayfa 30
The captain was sputtering. 'But — it's unnatural! Even savage tribes have their
chiefs! Even a pack of wolves has its leader!'
'Well,' retorted Jarvis defiantly, 'that only proves that government is a primitive
device, doesn't it? With a perfect race you wouldn't need it at all; government is a
confession of weakness, isn't it? It's a confession that part of the people won't
cooperate with the rest and that you need laws to restrain those individuals which a
psychologist calls anti-social. If there were no anti-social persons — criminals and
such — you wouldn't need laws or police, would you?'
'No wars on Mars, in spite of being named after the War God. No point in wars
here; the population is too thin and too scattered, and besides, it takes the help of
every single community to keep the canal system functioning. No taxes because
apparently all individuals cooperate in building public works. No competition to
cause trouble, because anybody can help himself to anything. As I said, with a
perfect race government is entirely unnecessary.'
So if she's somewhere near me
I hope to God she hears me
There's no one else
Could ever make me feel
I'm so alive
I hoped she'd never leave me
Please God you must believe me
I've searched the universe
And found myself
Within' her eyes
6 GOVERNMENT POLICIES THAT DID NOT WORK OUT WELL
Poll Tax
The smartest minds in Margaret Thatcher’s government came up with what they thought a fairer tax: one where everybody, rich or poor, paid the same. It led to widespread nonpayment, large-scale riots and eventually Thatcher was forced to resign.
Prohibition
America’s efforts to ban the drinking of alcohol between 1920 and 1933 did lead to fewer people drinking—but it also allowed organized crime to monopolize the alcohol industry, making crime soar in many places.
The Cobra Effect
As pest control in Delhi, the British government offered a bounty for dead cobras. So people simply bred cobras to claim the bounty. So the British dropped the bounty. So people turned the worthless cobras loose. Result: more cobras.
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
As the Great Depression started to bite in 1930, the US introduced large tariffs on imports to try and prop up domestic industries. Instead, the resulting trade war only worsened the global depression.
The Duplessis Orphans
In Quebec in the 1940s and 1950s, the government offered church groups subsidies to care for both orphans and the mentally ill. But the psychiatric payments were double that for orphans—so thousands of orphans were falsely diagnosed as mentally ill.
Hoy No Circula
In 1989, Mexico City tried to reduce air pollution by banning particular cars from being driven on certain days. Unfortunately, rather than taking the bus, people just bought more cars so they’d always have one that was legal to drive.
