Webb Traverse and the Philosopher's Stone

[mikebailey at speakeasy.net]

Paul Mackin wondered 
> 
> On Jun 19, 2007, at 2:08 AM, mikebailey wrote:
> > the State as a hindrance to their ideals.
> > A conclusion one might draw is that maybe these ideals spring
> > from 2 different sorts of person (implying physical difference:
> > maybe a key gene that could be toggled one way or another)
> > and that a state in fact has
> > arisen as an entity to play upon or mediate these differences...
> 
> Does this meaning that maybe having a state and a government is a 
> good thing after all?
> 
> 

I haven't done enough reading to say anything new about it, but
here are 2 chestnuts:

if not an official Peircean, still a pragmatic strategy is to
make the best of it, nicht wahr?

in a narrow poli-sci sense, there will always be some kind of state
as being the term to describe in general how things are run 
(even if it's "we have a unanimous agreement not to force each other
into doing anything ever")(all that would require would be
finding out what each other wants, and preemptively taking
that into account before making our plans -- again with 
the meetings!!! but, honestly, doable)