“What people don’t seem to realize is that, after a little while… just long enough to build up fresh assets after the last batch was stolen… the professional pirates come… and take everything that was generated since either the last time they did this… or the last time someone else did.

This is actually how Western nations work, fundamentally. It’s the plan they operate on, and no one has ever yet succeeded at interrupting this or establishing something that’s actually intelligent, fair or humane.

And there are… believe it or not… even worse ways of having what we call a country.”

— an anonymous informant