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I'm going to be using SIMP with Trillian, we'll see how that goes.

In other news I'm nearly finished VALIS. That book rules, yo. Un-sur-prisingly. But now I have to clean my room and do laundry and stuff.

Oh, and I got this spam. Well, actually I'm subscribed to this "paid research marketing" list, but unsurprisingly they're never looking for single white females:
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new plan

So I'm the kind of person who wavers between complete decentralization of government (mostly anarchy with small pockets of groups that make their own rules, basically), and complete "benevolent" dictatorship, with me or one of four other people I trust in charge.

But I think the best decision is kind of a combination. Every five years, you take a "Independent Critical Thinking" skills test. Based on your score, you get a certain license to do, well, whatever you want. Within certain limits. If, for example, you passed the drugs section, you can use whatever drugs you want. If you passed the guns section, same deal. If you pass all sections, you can pretty much do whatever you want... The test questions would also probably be voted on, just to make it fair.

Everyone else of course has to follow all the rules. But hell, that's what sheep want anyway, right? To be told what to do.