http://gregoryyates.blogsome.com -- Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:54:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ‘ello. Why haven’t I posted for so long? Well, I didn’t want to, basically. I’ve been too busy. Now, I understand that it would only take a little time to write a blog entry, but this is where my theory of preoccupation comes into play: busy people don’t do small things, ... http://gregoryyates.blogsome.com/2009/03/17/absence-makes-the-heart-grow-older/ A ’good-for-nothing’ just believes that good comes to nothing, and thus does nothing good.  http://gregoryyates.blogsome.com/2008/12/29/good-for-nothing/ …I like it! I woke up to the soothing voice of Stephen Fry, thanks to my new clock, and spent the next five minutes quietly mourning for wasted mornings without this gentle alarm. Let’s just hope it continues to, err, actually wake me up. Thought I’d share that. I’ll get back to ... http://gregoryyates.blogsome.com/2008/12/26/boxing-day/ I actually did have a brilliant post, good-to-go, about judiciary and how, essentially, law is arbitrary by definition - but then IE decided that I didn’t, in fact, deserve to blog. I find it hard to be too aggravated by this, though, as yesterday I recieved an offer to read ... http://gregoryyates.blogsome.com/2008/12/23/anarchy-is-anarchy/ The standard argument against the rejection of arbitrary state ‘rules’ goes as follows: 1. The rules of Britain are clearly defined and concern the whole of Britain. 2. You live in Britain. 3. If you did not like the rules, you could just leave. 4. You have not left, so you must appreciate the rules.  I’ll challenge ... http://gregoryyates.blogsome.com/2008/12/03/government-is-non-consensual/ Government taxation amounts to theft. I do not believe that at any point I gave consent to pay British ’Value Added Tax’ in addition to the base price of products I regularly purchase; yet, the government collects this sum from me. I did not vote for this policy on a party manifesto, ... http://gregoryyates.blogsome.com/2008/11/27/justification-for-a-state-of-anarchy-3/ Government makes us ‘less good’ as individuals. This is not as ambiguous as it sounds. There is an old adage that a good deed undertaken with forced hand is not a good deed at all; in layman’s terms: if somebody makes you do a good thing, you can’t be credited as a good person ... http://gregoryyates.blogsome.com/2008/11/25/justification-for-a-state-of-anarchy-2/ Anarchists destroy the model of government simply by wishing it… The concept of democratic government hinges upon the tenuous ideal that my views can be represented in policy. I support the abolition of all government. This will, obviously, never be represented in the House of Commons, as no government could support ‘abolition of government’. I ... http://gregoryyates.blogsome.com/2008/11/24/justification-for-a-state-of-anarchy-1/ Referring to my previous post: Democracy - A two way failing… Everyone ought to take a ‘British Government’ exam before they are allowed to vote. This would ascertain whether or not they are capable of making an informed decision; this would ascertain, essentially, whether they are politically illiterate, as most are. Impractical, yes, ... http://gregoryyates.blogsome.com/2008/11/23/solution/ I hate urinals. I’m not quite sure at which point the men of Western society decided that it was, in fact, perfectly acceptable to urinate communally, much of the time with complete strangers, but I do know that I have not sufficiently made the evolutionary leap that would allow me ... http://gregoryyates.blogsome.com/2008/11/23/why-i-avoid-urinals/