mister_monster on Nostr: I have an interesting story along this vein as well. When I was a teenager, there was ...
I have an interesting story along this vein as well.
When I was a teenager, there was this concrete bike trail I basically lived on day in and day out. If I wasn't at school you could find me there with my friends fucking around, maybe smoking weed or whatever.
There was this dirt trail right off the main, government made trail, we carved it into the woods by simply walking that path, it crossed a creek to go to a shopping center because the trail wasn't really efficiently designed to actually go places fast. The trail didn't meet our needs so we improved it, no permission, no central planning, nothing. Authorities used to give us a hard time, trying to bust kids getting stoned or whatever down there.
My son also grew up there, he's about that age I was in those days, so he took me to go walk it. Nice thing, walking with your son in a place where you both have similar memories around the same age. That dirt trail is concrete now. It even has a name and a big sign over it. There's a bridge over the creek.
They couldn't stop us, because they don't actually govern anything. I bet the planners were really pissed at the kids making their own trails there instead of taking the prescribed routes. All they could do was pretend they made it for us, they made it better, slap their legitimacy on it, and of course take some tax money to do it. But they didn't make it, we did, against their wishes, and since government actually doesn't control anything, they instead give it their blessing, pretend they did everyone a favor, make everyone forget that they didn't build it, pretend they've given us some great gift. And they have to, because if they don't people might figure out that we don't need them.
When I was a teenager, there was this concrete bike trail I basically lived on day in and day out. If I wasn't at school you could find me there with my friends fucking around, maybe smoking weed or whatever.
There was this dirt trail right off the main, government made trail, we carved it into the woods by simply walking that path, it crossed a creek to go to a shopping center because the trail wasn't really efficiently designed to actually go places fast. The trail didn't meet our needs so we improved it, no permission, no central planning, nothing. Authorities used to give us a hard time, trying to bust kids getting stoned or whatever down there.
My son also grew up there, he's about that age I was in those days, so he took me to go walk it. Nice thing, walking with your son in a place where you both have similar memories around the same age. That dirt trail is concrete now. It even has a name and a big sign over it. There's a bridge over the creek.
They couldn't stop us, because they don't actually govern anything. I bet the planners were really pissed at the kids making their own trails there instead of taking the prescribed routes. All they could do was pretend they made it for us, they made it better, slap their legitimacy on it, and of course take some tax money to do it. But they didn't make it, we did, against their wishes, and since government actually doesn't control anything, they instead give it their blessing, pretend they did everyone a favor, make everyone forget that they didn't build it, pretend they've given us some great gift. And they have to, because if they don't people might figure out that we don't need them.