Rock in the road

A few years ago, my sister spoke of a conversation she had with a young lady from Vietnam. My sister asked what it was like to live under such an oppressive government. The young lady smiled and said something to this effect:

"O, it's not so bad, really. Our government is kind of like a big rock in the middle of the road. It's there, and we can't pretend that it's not there, but we mostly just walk around it and go about our business."

Now, isn't that a beautiful attitude? We Americans can certainly take a lesson here, and I would like to propose just such an attitude adjustment for ourselves. This may be an essential prerequisite for any tax resistance effort. Scuttle the hat-in-hand servile posture of weaklings praying for mercy. And perhaps discard as well the shrill demands of anger. Let the bureaucrats be damned if their intent is to be damned. We may and must pray for their souls, but God will sort that out. Let us be about our business, and largely just ignore the pitiful fools and their unjust taxes and expenditures. We must take care of our own business and be careful not to be found paying for the slaughter of the innocents. We must simply find ways to walk around the damned rock.