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in the matter of property ownership, how exactly does this distinction "ordinary citizen" vs. "government" work if the value of the sacred property is a function of the (public) infrastructure around it, of the patterns of investment that situate it--which are more often than not worked out in co-ordination with municipalities, etc.
if you sell your sacred property, you would rely on the workings of markets which are created and hedged around at every step by legal strictures, all of which are public. the currency that you would accrue is a social phenomenon.
the relation of you as buyer to your mortgage is a highly circumscribed one, legally.
the deed that gives you title is a legal document.
the idea of private property is a legal construction.
every single step of every single aspect of this relation entails a very very close interaction between the private citizen (also a legal term) and the state....so i don't see how you can make a strict separation between the two and be coherent in any way. but maybe you can explain it?
this separation does not seem to me to involve an analytic viewpoint in any way--these seem straight political/ideological claims.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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