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criminy. here we are again back at the circular origin of natural-law style claims.
the natural law position seems to involve mysticism now, as it is possible to claim what the magickal Founders would and would not have tolerated quite apart from any documentary evidence. it's a kind of channeling. i'm always impressed to see people who channel. the problem is that this stuff is best at a seance. it's meaningless political argument, even in paranoia.
natural law is a style of claim made to justify breaking with the previous legal framework. it relies on an imaginary state prior to that arrangement the precepts or rights of which that previous system violated.
in sociological terms, it's a version of the style of arguments "heretics" used against the existing christian system. all the features are in place.
that's the level at which natural law exists. there is no other.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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