Friday Food for Thought

The substance of the following may strike some as cynical or pessimistic. But if you think it through, I think you'll have to admit that Sir Isaiah Berlin (the eminent Latvian philosopher and historian of ideas) was on to something with the statement:

"In the ideal society, composed of wholly
responsible human beings, laws, because I
should scarcely be conscious of them, would
gradually wither away. Only one social
movement was bold enough to render
this assumption quite explicit and accept
its consequences-- that of the Anarchists."