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My intellectual journey has taken me from advocacy of a limited state to advocacy of no state.

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I've had a similar journey to yours, although I see problems with any oranization of society I can imagine.

Human society is somewhat like running Windows software. If you run it long enough, you will get a blue screen or the system will lock up and you have to hit the reset button. Human beings are just too lazy to keep any form of government going forever. It is simply not human nature to be vigilant. Nothing lasts forever and neither will our current Constitutional Republic. However, as long as there are a few members of the society who can "set brush fires in people's minds" there will be a way to hit that reset button.

"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.."
--Samuel Adams

I've had a similar journey to yours, although I see problems with any oranization of society I can imagine. Human society is somewhat like running Windows software. If you run it long enough, you will get a blue screen or the system will lock up and you have to hit the reset button. Human beings are just too lazy to keep any form of government going forever. It is simply not human nature to be vigilant. Nothing lasts forever and neither will our current Constitutional Republic. However, as long as there are a few members of the society who can "set brush fires in people's minds" there will be a way to hit that reset button.

"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.." --Samuel Adams

I can't believe that our common position on the role of the state (or lack thereof) was less incendiary than "Madison was a Deist." I find it heartening that some people put *anything* above the state in our politicized, statist society, but some christians do. I have been meaning to brush up on Leo Tolstoy's christian anarchism for a while, maybe now is the time. I liked your analogy of the state to the Windows. Samuel Adams' quote makes me want to check and make sure my Blue Tips are plentiful and dry.

Cheers!