Such people as settled Sirius 4 did not need someone from Earth telling them how to live their lives; in fact they came to resent that the Earthian lawmakers’ belief that they had any insight into how to conduct business or pleasure on a different planet in a different solar system.
Oh, it’s true that some came expecting to follow a leader or perhaps even to be a leader, the latter believing themselves to be somewhat wiser than the rest of us. But dropping yourself and perhaps your family into a remote corner of the galaxy takes some amount of self-confidence, no matter how fast the trip is. It quickly became apparent that galactic pioneers had no need – indeed, no practical use – for the help or machinations of a distant government.
Freedom being something internal that we are born understanding, the farther anyone got from the notion that we need a government to assure our freedom, the more absurd the idea seemed to be.
A world filled with sovereign individuals could get along just fine without organizing a sovereign collective, as we learned just as soon as we agreed to set the government out of our way.
Still, as humans seem wont to do, many tried the bloody path that had been tried so often before stumbling onto the alternative.
Entry 58
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