Making of a Novel Part 1

Pals: Ha! Perhaps I should have used that tone with the Believers.At any rate, I think you might be misreading MM's tone. His "we know" might be with a grain of salt.Then again, it might not be.To the question of government building — how do you solve the problem of 1) succession 2) defense 3) personal liberty 4) mobocracy?Any decent system of government has to solve these 4 specific problems.