Tandra Page 1073, January 3, 2010

Created on 01/04/2010

by Hanther

We have a new year upon us. I have noted, in reference to Al Gore’s insistence we are all going to warm to death if we don’t abandon technology and go back to a stone age level of existence, it has recently been colder in my back yard than anytime since 1993. As one of my neighbors remarked, “Where the hell is Al Gore’s global warming when we need it?”

We get e-mail on occasion from our readers and a recent communication suggested the editorial slant of Tandra has become more anti-government since the new Democratic regime took over in Washington. I’m certain there is ample evidence to support that belief, but I had occasion to look over some of the very first Tandra pages released way back in 1974, and the evidence there suggests Tandra has never been very Washington friendly. Tandra was displaying a pronounced hostility to the power brokers as far back as “The Sacrifice Syndrome”, the third Tandra Chapter back when I was dividing my story into chapters.

Some of you have inquired if I display such hostility to Government, what is my suggested alternative? As many have pointed out, it’s relatively easy to be opposed to something but more difficult to come up with a positive alternative. Said differently, tearing down is unskilled labour while constructing something worthwhile requires more thought and ability.

The Founding Fathers were of the opinion government is necessary, but requires strict oversight and containment. The much publicized comparison made to government was that a fire in the fireplace was useful but, allowed to run wild, would reduce the house to ash. My own observation has been that government is more like cancer and cancer cannot be restricted to a small area where it can do no damage. Cancer, like government, grows and consumes until it destroys the host. That is the nature of cancer and the nature of government.

We have been told for all of our lives that government is necessary to avoid total anarchy and the collapse of society. But, I have noticed most of those advocating the necessity of government are people with a vested interest in maintaining government. I suggest their objectivity is suspect.

So, I don’t like government. What do I propose as an alternative? How would I run the world? Certainly I can itemize the flaws in government, but can I suggest a positive alternative?

In a certain sense, I have been doing just that for some thirty years. David Galon on Tandra is a man operating beyond the process of government. Certainly Tandra is fantasy fiction and not a practical user guide to living without government, but Tandra remains a suggestion of the opportunities of living your life beyond the control of government.

You see, it works like this. The real world, the world of natural law and consequence, is man’s factual government. The real world places conditions upon our existence and shows us how to best prosper in this life. Man made governments are, in the final analysis, an attempt to escape the laws and consequences of reality and to set up an existence in opposition to natural law. As such, any man made government that defies nature is doomed to failure. Conversely, any government that recognized the laws of reality has a better chance of success so long as it continues to comply with nature.

To repeat an often named justification used by fools who seek to circumvent reality, the universe is too big to fail and those who insist they can pull a fast one on reality are only walking a path to their own extinction.

May the sun always shine on your parade!

Next Week; “Shaikha Kidnapped”

Tandra...more than escapist fantasy, it’s a revolution!

Hanther

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