Mencken #22 - Government Is The Worst Failure Of Civilized Man

Anyone who has followed me here or on Facebook for any length of time will know that I am no fan of government; neither, it seems, was H.L Mencken. He knew then, as we know now, that they are filled with not particularly remarkable men and women doing their best to find the most expensive and most complicated ways to do the cheapest and easiest things. Anarchy may be a utopian pipe dream, but I for one will continue to dream if only to block out the thought of what these idiots are doing to our world.

“Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent. Indeed, it would not be far wrong to describe the best as the common enemy of all decent citizens. But there will be small hope of gaining adherents to this idea so long as government is thought of as an independent and somehow super-human organism, with powers, rights, and privileges transcending those of any other human aggregation."

Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956) p. 69

I Fucking Love H.L Mencken