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whiddershins on June 30, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Freedom: The Big American Lie

By that logic we would all still be sitting in mud huts. Progress is about imagining a better future and then working to achieve it.

mpyne on June 30, 2013 [–]

Well, you get people to not ever rape or murder one another and I'll get political schemes to all settle on anarchist societies where major industrial projects still manage to get funded and no one ever tried to take more by force.

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