Quote of the day
22 January 2009 by Mike GogulskiPosted in mind control | 4 Comments »
“A man is just a man, and a president is a fiction that only exists in our minds. For that matter, America is no more real than Camelot, and maps are merely illustrations of the fantasies of kings.”
– from The Difference Between Chairs and Thrones… at the dignity of struggle.
4 Responses to “Quote of the day”
By AJ on 22 January 2009
Nice quote
By Seth on 22 January 2009
Bravo. I have thought often about borders just being “imaginary lines on a map”. But a savvy debater could also raise the question “well then, aren’t property lines, essentially just imagintary lines on a map as well?”
Seems tricky to convincely argue against borders on the one hand, while simultaneously upholding the “private borders” that are property lines.
Anybody else ever found a good way to explain this seeming contradiction?
By Mike Gogulski on 22 January 2009
I like to imagine property rights as being extensions of the holder’s right to their own body.
By Madison Classical Liberal on 23 January 2009
I prefer to think of political boundaries as being imaginary because they were created through coercion. Private property borders are not imaginary but rather well-defined borders, or legitimate, because they were arrived at through voluntary social cooperation.