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Re: The Metaphysics of Contemporary Theft
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"Metaphysics," dammit.

Every damn person who busts a window and walks off with a TV set thinks the world owes him something, and he's got the right to take it from the Man. Assuming he thinks at all. Every damn person who riots at a G2 conference thinks the enemy is the bankers and capitalists, and that the solution is some form of collectivist economics. Everybody burning things in Greece is fighting for socialist benefits. There is a worldview connected to these things. It says "we have an unalterable right to have 'society' pay for our needs." You can get stuck on the word "liberal" if you want, and try to pretend I'm saying "liberals are all crooks," but it's wider than that. Call the ideology "Barsoomianism" if it makes you feel better.

I don't create the reality, I just report it.

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