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i just find it amazing.
the 18th century was a pretty interesting time in alot of ways, but jesus...living most anywhere in most any regular socio-economic situation was not pretty.
and there comes a point where these Panegyrics to the Grand Old Days based on seemingly no information about the period gets tired.
i'm certainly not saying the period was anything like a stone age.
i don't know where you got that idea.
but i do think that if most contemporary libertarians were to get sherman to set the wayback machine for, say, 1787 most places, they'd be dead in a matter of days. probably from some disease that had since been eradicated more or less. or strung up somewhere. and no-one would ever know. because record-keeping at that time--not real systematic.
but what i did say is the 18th century most libertarians evoke is the version you see in historical re-enactment parks.
which is fine.
just own up to it.
anyway, it was a digression and for that mea culpa.
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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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