Sowing Dragons

[Carl Remick]

>>Brad De Long wrote:
>>
>>>And what makes a state able to give orders?
>>
>>Lawyers, guns, and money, to quote Warren Zevon.
>>
>>Doug
>
>Still older is the Byzantine definition: "A standing army of
>soldiers, a sitting army of bureaucrats, a kneeling army of priests,
>and a creeping army of informers..."

None of whom seem likely to be thwarted by an e-mailing swarm of kibitzers 
;-)

Carl

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