I have been a socialist. I have been a libertarian. I have been an anarchist. And not just from the armchair. I have been arrested as an anarchist protesting the government.
I think a funny scene in a political comedy -- sort of like the scene in Woody Allen's Zelig where Zelig tries to play cello in a marching band -- would be someone bringing an armchair with them to a rally or protest event, getting arrested along with their armchair, seeing the character in a jail cell with his armchair with him. That would be funny, would it not?
Yes, and a powerful parable as well. Perhaps he could receive a more severe sentence than the flag burners.
And in other news,
The master shook his head, and said "No shoes will let me outrun a lion. Fortunately, I don't need to do that. I only have to run faster than the slowest of my companions." With this, the students were enlightened.
Some teachers give the running shoes to the slowest student, and provide a whole nuther kind of enlightenment.
And now for something completly on topic:
Linux *is* centralized, in a hiearchy even. Anti-"IP" is not anti-property, but rather anti-usury. Socialism is by definition statist.
I was with you on your comments (and strangely even agreed with them) until I got to "anti-usury." I am against "intellectual property" as defined by software patents, but I can't make the connection to usury.
Usury. The well-known "Microsoft Tax." Made sense to me.
-Jared