The department of the interior has "ownership", I mean like an old
fashioned commons, muddy ugly and overgrazed.
The current national parks, and public lands system in actual operation
is more like a fiefdom, where the local lord, (DOI), enforces his rules
sometimes arbitrarily.
You can see the difference in owned grazing lands and common grazing
lands historically and around the world.
There are walls, sometimes virtual walls, but walls none the less around
national parks, and officials with the full backing of armed, for want
of a better word "police" who are there to enforce the rules, with De
Jure and De Facto, punishments up to and including death, depending on
the resistance to those rules.
On 1/17/2019 12:00 PM, John wrote:
It's been found that things owned in common become the shittiest
things there
are.
You mean like National Parks and stuff like that?
On 1/17/2019 11:24:30, P. J. Alling wrote:
Property ownership... If you don't believe in that, well that's a
mighty nice camera you have there. I think I'll just take it to use
for myself.
It's been found that things owned in common become the shittiest
things there are. Maybe that's because people are just awful, but if
you want something to be taken care of give someone or some group
ownership. It's a simple concept that works more often than it doesn't.
On 1/12/2019 11:22 AM, John wrote:
On 1/12/2019 08:02:47, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:
You took the words right out of my mouth.
<G>
On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 2:22 AM mike wilson
<[email protected]> wrote:
Excellent. Highlights the paradox (keeping out or keeping in) of
fences,
whilst contrasting the difference between the stasis of boundaries
and the
fluidity of travel. At the same time, with the hint of road, it
shows that
barriers prevent us (symbolised by the caravans) from fulfilling our
destinies.
Something there is that doesn’t love a fence.
Before I built a fence I’d ask to know
What I was fencing in or fencing out,
And to whom I was like to give offense.
Good fences make good neighbors.
So I jumped on the fence and I yelled at the house
"Hey! What gives you the right?
To put up a fence to keep me out
Or to keep Mother Nature in
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America was founded so we could all be anything we damn well please.
- P.J. O'Rourke
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