An essay on the evasion of bureaucracy, found by Bodwyn Wook:
This is the story of how I successfully refused to accept a Social Security Number for my child.
I simply said “no.”
Ah, the USA! Whatever one may think of its recent experiments (which seem, regrettably, likely to continue) with totalitarianism, it is evidently still possible there to do this sort of thing and get away with it.
In this country they simply take the baby’s DNA anyway, and call it by whatsoever numbers they choose; and if one says anything about it they call the goons and start shrieking about ‘verbal abuse’.
Notwithstanding the results of previous Anglo-American competitions, I reckon our American cousins are going to have to be a bit more 100% about it to beat us at the new 21st-century sport of ’sovietisation’.
[...] From Bodwyn Wook, via that inestimably tireless spotter of small candles of liberty in the wind, The Landed Underclass. [...]