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Death of a Generation


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THE LIBERTARIAN ENTERPRISE
Number 386, September 24, 2006
"Government is about stealing."

This is a sword the Atlanta Cutlery catalog calls "Evil's Bane". It's big and heavy but balances exceptionally well. There is a lot of edge to keep an eye on, and I'm not confident enough yet to have sharpened it. Too easy to make a mistake with. A little more Tai Chi and I will turn it into a real weapon.
—L. Neil Smith

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Death of a Generation
by L. Neil Smith
My mother died night before last.
It was not unexpected. The small nursing home only three or four blocks from our house called us, and we went over to see my mother one last time and to begin all of the formalities associated with dying in America.
As I looked down at her dead face, the first thought that came to my mind, completely unbidden, was that here was the end of another life—exactly like my father's which ended in 1991—that had been callously used, drained, and distorted from its proper, natural shape by the one predator on the food chain higher than human beings: the state.
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