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To: counterpunch

You said:

"It speaks to man's natural state of freedom, which came before society, government, and the unnatural burden which they create."

And, pray tell, what is this mythical noble savage existence you speak of? Would it be like (pre British influence) Aboriginals in Australia naked in the bush, never bathing their entire lives and eating witchety grubs, live or cooked?

Or would it be New Guinea aboriginals, ditto about naked and unwashed (except the men wear those interesting leaf genital wrappers), with women doing every stroke of work besides the ritual pigkilling to deflect the witch craft, fear of which permeates their every waking minute? Would this freedom include their unique habit of chopping of a woman's finger every time a relative dies, so the old ladies (should they live that long) often have one or two fingers left, while they struggle growing sweet potatoes?

What about the men's almost universal practice of sodomizing the young boys as a ritual practice, and eating the brains of the deceased? (Practices now hopefully curtailed.)


Are these the kind of societies free from unnatural burdens you're speaking of? Or some other human groupings free of society?


211 posted on 06/10/2004 8:16:31 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Take Back The Rainbow! Take back the word "GAY"!)
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To: little jeremiah

Are you some kind of Marxist-Leninist authoritarian social engineer?


213 posted on 06/10/2004 8:20:27 AM PDT by counterpunch (<-CLICK HERE for my CARTOONS)
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To: little jeremiah

I've decided to give you a proper response.
I don't care in what way man lived before the rise of the authoritarian State. It is moot.

What matters, and what I was saying, and what the Declaration of Independence is speaking to, is that freedom is man's natural state, and it is only other men who take it away.

If you do not believe in or respect Freedom, then I have trouble understanding what you are doing on FreeRepublic.


224 posted on 06/10/2004 8:31:36 AM PDT by counterpunch (<-CLICK HERE for my CARTOONS)
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