As is generally the case with Hanson, his intellectual bias leads him into the completley wrong direction. People coming and going freely where they please isn’t a historical exception of the West, it has been the historical norm for almost all of human history. Government is what limits migration and restricts individual freedom. The less government there is, the more free you are. I would have thought this would be obvious to conservatives but I guess not.
It has nothing to do with human rights, international courts, or deliberative bodies which are subjects I’m sure most freepers are not quite fond of in the original context of the author. It is a simple matter of control, whether your lord, king, pontiff, legislator, martian overlord, what have you, can dictate where you as an individual can go and what you can and cannot do. With more primitive governments and societies, there was less control ergo more freedom. Funny that Hanson should mention native americans as an anti-thesis of freedom of movement when many of them were nomadic to begin with. Actually, its not funny, it’s just pretty much idiotic.
Funny that Hanson should mention native americans as an anti-thesis of freedom of movement when many of them were nomadic to begin with.
Just because a tribe is nomadic does not mean that they are not territorial. If a nomadic tribe found another tribe on its hunting grounds there would be blood. Make no mistake it is part of the human genome to be territorial.
The North American tribes may not have had a concept of personal ownership of land but they certainly did have a concept of tribal ownership of land.
National governments are simply an expansion of the human tribal concept.
The less government there is, the more free you are. I would have thought this would be obvious to conservatives but I guess not.
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Lack of government is anarchy, not freedom. There is always and everywhere some form of power consolidation. Our Constitution codified more freedom per person than any other government had done in history. But there has to be some amount of government. Even in the Amazon jungle, there are tribal leaders who set the rules for others.