[Vision2020] Van loon on Libertianism

[Debi Smith]

LOL with some winches attached!
Debi R-S

On 10/27/2015 7:06 PM, Ron Force wrote:
> From Charles P. Pierce, Esquire Magazine:
>
> We interrupt our regularly scheduled Stupid to bring you the following 
> message from the greatHendrik van Loon, author, journalist, confidant 
> of presidents, teacher of America's young people, and renowned 
> eccentric prose stylist. This week's lesson comes to us from Van 
> Loon's /Ancient Man, /which he published in 1922, in which our author 
> describes with Nostradamian insight the current House of Representatives.​
>
>     The "state," as a matter of fact, is quite a recent invention. The
>     earliest inhabitants of the world did not know what it was. Every
>     family lived and hunted and worked and died for and by itself.
>     Sometimes it happened that a few of these families, for the sake
>     of greater protection against the wild animals and against other
>     wild people, formed a loose alliance which was called a tribe or a
>     clan. But as soon as the danger was past, these groups of people
>     acted again by and for themselves and if the weak could not defend
>     their own cave, they were left to the mercies of the hyena and the
>     tiger and nobody was very sorry if they were killed. In short,
>     each person was a nation unto himself and he felt no
>     responsibility for the happiness and safety of his neighbor.
>
> ​ Or, as we call it today, Texas.​
>
> Or Idaho...
>
> Ron Force
> Moscow Idaho USA
>
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