(urth) Gene Wolfe Fans Talk Politics (Again)

Adam Thornton adam at io.com
Tue May 19 14:14:06 PDT 2009


On May 19, 2009, at 4:04 PM, James Wynn wrote:

>> Adam sez:
>> It is my choice to go live somewhere else without
>> these restrictions,  if I like. Like Mogadishu.
>
>> Dan'l sez:
>> If you don't like it, strongly enough, you are encouraged
>> to go live in Somalia.
>
> I'm not sure where some people got the idea that Somalia was founded  
> as a Libertarian/Liberal society, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't.

I am merely offering Somalia as the closest approach to the ideal of a  
complete lack of functional civil society and to a Hobbesian all- 
against-all of which I am currently aware.

I don't think it was founded as a Libertopia.  I think it does  
approximate the end state of a society in which there is not a  
government.

Adam



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