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I predict reports will soon appear on cable news channels of the discovery of a horrible Iowahawk-style cult which ritually murders unfortunate people who make a turn down the wrong dirt road and end up in Max, Nebraska.
I’m guessing that Max, Nebraska has larger families as well; because one doesn’t have the ‘net government drain’ on everything you earn and attempt to take home but can’t keep.
Why Max, Nebraska is just downright dangerous to the likes of crony capitalism and influence peddling, that would just be revolutionary to the big government sprawling state…
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This must be the most dangerous place in all of North America….no government.
It’s time to shut it down.
Max has no airport!!!!
Everything Obsbms HATES about America.
I said “Hates about America”.
Can’t wait until we get the next installment of less government from PODUNK, Nebraska!
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While it is no doubt a peaceful and easy going place, it sounds very small and very dull …. deadly dull. They have no need for much governance because of the size of the community (2010 population = 57). The narrator is an older man. I wonder how the younger men and women feel about living in Max, Nebraska. As for me, I won’t be moving there.
Not entirely without government. He cites two instances where they relied on the *county* sheriff to deal with robbers. Surely, there are more. And I’m sure some of the “local youth” are educated in some form of public school, which is run by the county or school district government. And a quick look at your favorite map site will show that US Route 34 runs right along the edge of Max, Nebraska. Why they even have a tiny, little US Post Office sitting right on Main Street. So, it’s disingenuous at best to say they have “no government in Max, Nebraska”.
Well, as much as it sounds idealistic for retired or laid back folk, Max sounds like the place where your cousin starts to look good. ‘Bout the same excitement as a teen without wheels in Delisle.
Foghorn Leghorn is alive and well. I always wondered where he retired to after his loony toons career.
Texas Canuck, that was delisle-full….you are about to feel the burn of Kate’s icy glare..transmitted via keyboard retort across the frozen stubble
Cute, quaint,and like many of the dieing little towns near my hometown in Manitoba.
And dull, deadly dull on a Winter’s might. You sit there and read another book,this one not so good as you’ve read all the good ones and now have worked your way down to the mediocre.
The bar burned down thirty years ago when struck by an unfortunate case of lightning, then the pool hall closed, the only restaurant closed shortly after,and one of the two grocery stores closed leaving just the smaller one.
There’s no crime because everybody knows everybody and you can’t steal from friends and family, only strangers. Rape? Yeah, we had one about forty years ago, but seeing as they got married a few weeks later the veracity of the charge is suspect. That Morris kid stole my car but it ran out of gas before he reached the town limits.
You know when you start turning on the TV to watch soap operas on the one channel you get, that it’s time to take up serious drinking, or shoot yourself.
But then you have to drive fifty miles for either booze or bullets.
Sounds like a great place to live but the EPA would still have jurisdiction as a state entity and they live to make life miserable no matter how independent the citizens of Max may feel. So would the IRS, NSA and various other big brother meddlers. It’s the kind of town you don’t want to brag too loudly about as somewhere in the State capital, someone is probably taking notes.
See The Enterprise of Law. This is how it used to be done.
Yeah, deadly dull, and so what? Except for the meat-packing towns overrun with illegals, the Nebraska countryside is beautiful, empty, and untrampled. Wagon ruts from the Oregon Trail are still visible. Gorgeous state. Taxes are high, though, so I live across the river.
Interesting, but it has >100 people.
Is this a matter of not having those things because they don’t want them, or because they don’t need them?
..what? no government? really? no prisons, no public schools, no currency? do they grow all their own food, barter for building materials? and what about if they find one of the people living in max is a murderer or a rapist or a thief? or even if someone is just accused of one of these things? do they have some sort of judicial system? just because crime doesn’t happen often doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be some sort of plan for if it does (and no, just shooting the person accused or caught doesn’t count. where’s the due process?). they are certainly less reliant on government, but like someone else said, it’s disingenuous to say they don’t have any at all. they still get their mail, don’t they? and what about deliveries for what little business is there? even if the business owner(s) drive to the next town over to pick up supplies, there is still help from the government- how does the supplies get to that town? there are certainly going to be paved roads and law enforcement in that other town. how about health care? do the people in max have some sort of immunity to all disease and injury? i imagine that, like most little towns, it’s a farming community. accidents happen a lot on farms. do they ever call 911 for medical emergencies? because it sounds like a med-evac helicopter would be necessary.
i could go on and on, there are so many ways that the people in this town DO in fact rely on the government. this type of person frustrates me to no end. “i/we did it all on our own! no help from the outside ever!” except for the times when things go wrong. then it’s the government’s fault if things don’t get fixed.
I think you guys are missing a few points. First, I’m pretty sure he means no “local” government, he’s not saying that there is no state or federal government or institutions. Second, his larger point is that when people are not reliant on the government, they do things for themselves and for their neighbors and in fact you usually get a better outcome that way.
For the most part, the rest of us have become jaded by our high taxes and leave everything for the government to do. In fact I would suggest, the more government, the less sense of community you have in society. I’m from a rural area and people still wave to each other on back roads, but you’ll only see the middle finger wave in the city….
So true. The only time any city has ever brought me joy is when I see it in the rear view mirror as I’m leaving. For lifestyle there is no comparison, but it would be a dull world if we all had the same tastes in living. To each their own.
What negative comments, completely missing the point.