[TheForge] Disgusting Ironwork(Going OT)

[Phlip]

Ene bichizh ogsen baina shuu...

> Regardless of who is in power, I doubt governments in general are
> ,ultimately, very good parasites.
>
> As institutions I doubt they have the wit, NOT to kill the host.
>
> Mike Graf

Well, if you look down through history, you'll realize that there's hope- if
the get annoying enough, they get overthrown, either from within or from
without. For those of you not as into history as I am, I'm sure you can
think about the more well-known governments that suddenly weren't- look at
Rome, or our American history and the revolution. I've recently been
proofing a book on Chinese medical history, and the many Chinese Dynbasties
eventually came and went. Sometimes it takes a while, but when a government
stops serving the needs of its people(s), it's replaced- usually not gently.

As a closing thought, perhaps you might enjoy Shelley's poem, Ozymandias:

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

Ozymandias


              I met a traveller from an antique land,
              Who said -- "two vast and trunkless legs of stone
              Stand in the desert ... near them, on the sand,
              Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
              And wrinkled lips, and sneer of cold command,
              Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
              Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
              The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
              And on the pedestal these words appear:
              My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings,
              Look on my Works ye Mighty, and despair!
              Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
              Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
              The lone and level sands stretch far away." -- 






Saint Phlip,
CoDoLDS

"When in doubt, heat it up and hit it with a hammer."
 Blacksmith's credo.

 If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it is probably not a
cat.

Never a horse that cain't be rode,
And never a rider who cain't be throwed....