Submitted by macromaniac on February 18, 2010 – 10:36pm.

Anyone care to comment on this truth:

“In particular, zeroed in on a section relating to the wonderful “exemptions” that make institutions like the vulgar, corrupt Catholic Church so incredibly wealthy. We carefully studied the law (with the help of some of the “best”, high-paid, experienced tax lawyers in the business), and then began to do exactly what the “big boys” were doing (except that we weren’t steeling from our congregation or lying to the government about our massive profits in the name of God). ”

I noticed that too. Especially that he went into no explanation of what the section he cites actually did to the tax law, other than somehow it makes is harder for independent technical workers to earn a living.

The other thing that makes me wonder is Ricechex’ observation that the building was virtually empty. Really?? Were they warned?

Reading his essay, he says that he decided to become a free-lance engineer and not work for any corporation after, as a student, meeting the widow of a steelworker who lost his retirement when his company folded. Ever since, he’s been trying to free-lance it and finding things harder and harder… until he finally decided to literally throw his pound of flesh in the IRS’s face.

Many comments in his essay are eerily reminiscent of things that many other bloggers have also pointed out about the government, corporations, politicians, etc. What kind of gobsmacks me is how severely does a geek have to be pushed before he literally goes kamikaze? As an engineer myself I find it a little hard to imagine.

I hope that Charles Hugh Smith is right and the revolution will not occur with a bang with many guns and explosions, but instead with a quietly kudzu-like subsuming of the old order by the new.