To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
I agree. The Indians wouldn't have "lost" their land if they understood the concept of property rights to begin with. They didn't, and a paleolithic people simply weren't going to retain their hunter/gatherer nascent agrarian lifestyle in the face of societies that had engaged in global circumnavigation and could predict planetary movements with mathematical formulas.
49 posted on
11/24/2005 5:45:41 PM PST by
Hank All-American
(Free Men, Free Minds, Free Markets baby!)
To: Hank All-American
I agree. The Indians wouldn't have "lost" their land if they understood the concept of property rights to begin with. They didn't, and a paleolithic people simply weren't going to retain their hunter/gatherer nascent agrarian lifestyle in the face of societies that had engaged in global circumnavigation and could predict planetary movements with mathematical formulasI'm confused. Is the Left for or against science, progress, and modernity? They keep switching back and forth depending on whether the holdouts are white Kansans or "indigenous pipples."
171 posted on
11/24/2005 7:21:08 PM PST by
Zionist Conspirator
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