From Fly Over Country:

Some people, and I mean liberal in the current defintion, think they can dream up the way it supposed to be, snap their fingers, and the whole world will be remade over in their image. Fishing allows me to not fall into that mindset. Fishing, like hunting, allows me to plug in on the ground floor of a market economy and begin to piece together the relationship between what I get from the grocery store and the forces it took to get it there. Running cattle offers the same sort of insight, only it is a lot more messy and the potential for getting hurt is exponentially bigger. But, that is for another time.

It’s not just liberals, folks. Conservatives, stupidly, believe the same thing.
It’s a whole way of governing, it doesn’t work very well, and we’re living with it. It needs to change.
Robert Pirsig (‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’), wrote a brilliant essay called ‘The Cruising Blues’; I need to find a copy right about now…