Spent yesterday with my (amazing) daughter, understanding her research work (cys

Spent yesterday with my (amazing) daughter, understanding her research work (cystic fibrosis) and learning about the proteins involved and the diagnostic and treatment protocols.

On the drive back she worked up what seemed like the courage to ask me about my work, and I was surprised that like most people both norm and left, she seemed to think that I’m all about imposition on others, rather than liberty of all peoples to create states that produce commons that they want – and to pay the cost of those commons whether they like them or not.

It was interesting to talk to someone who is on the other end of the spectrum in some ways (she’s pretty traditional actually), and work through the question of why we can’t separate and creat our own happy little universes.

For some reason this whole ‘we’ thing is a stumbling block for most people. The very idea that the USGovernemtn is imperial over multiple cultures rather than a defender of states and their various cultures, is rather … difficult for me to empathize with.