And they might be doing that too, he reminded himself morosely.  Government!  Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth stupid fumbling - oh, he conceded that man, a social animal, could not avoid having government, any more than an individual man could escape his lifelong bondage to his bowels.  But Harshaw did not have to like it.  Simply because an evil was inescapable was no reason to term it a "good." He wished that government would wander off and get lost?