Originally Posted by
Expat
You see, to be more concerned with the abstract qualities, or governmental apologetics, is related to the idea of "inventing government" - and wasn't Al Gore (LII I think) who suggested, as one of his vice-presidential tasks, "reinventing government"? Maxime seemed to be far keener on creating, or dissecting, theories of government than on implementing them - I prefer to regard his use of Terror as a desperate aberration rather than a natural inclination. In one of my early "concrete metaphors" to describe Ti, I chose precisely one about writing a constitution. This all fits in my view of Alpha as being pre-government, asking for government, and even creating government.