kept by a crocked\ bad cop in the back of a car , after being involved in something of .. that was very very good of my behaving , as i was .. . there .. . over a radio came .. a wave of what was just then happening down in new orleans ,the first of all hearing about up here , i felt that flooding in so many ways , with and of the disbelieve on what was happening to me there , and that man /cop became very still in that with a sense of what he was doing with me there be very wrong i could see that it was physically overwhelming him of what he was then hearing and his avoiding the ocean of my eyes ,he stopped and let me go , said an extreme of grounded of sane ,sensible As with Hegel, I believe the liberal worship of the state--in this case--is an artifact of privilege. Liberals are people who the state has been pretty good to. It's foolish; the state will turn on them in a flash if it suits its interests--like the antisemitic intellectuals Hitler rounded up--but liberals feel flattered Uncle Sam loves 'em specially and flattery puts up one of the most impenetrable barriers to wisdom. Re: the Church. I see the Catholic church's suspension of the state more to do with the threat the state poses to its own power. Remember the early church did everything it could to