Quote from: CoinCube on December 26, 2016, 07:21:06 PM

Quote from: iamnotback on December 26, 2016, 07:10:56 PM

It exists as a personal stable culture, akin to how the Jews are orthogonal to any nation-state.

In this I believe you are simply factually incorrect which is rare for you.

To show this, however, will take some work which I do not have time for today. I will type up a more detailed rebuttal tomorrow.

Stable only means that I can choose to adhere to it. It doesn't mean I can expect my offspring to adopt it. You'll need a very strong culture to be able to influence your offspring and a generation or two removed. Really you only get to impart your genes, culture is lost in time. R strategy seems much more effective.

I can even for example refuse socialized health care and die impoverished. It is a choice. And therefor it is stable if I choose it to be.

The society can do what ever it will ranging from tyranny of a king to tyranny of democracy, and I can continue to choose to drift from jurisdiction to jurisdiction which ever flavor of structure there suits me.

I can choose to retreat to the mountains or ingress to the city.

I am really a native American in my essence of being. My attitude is similar to Geronimo, who on his dying bed said, "I should not have surrendered". That is me. Until death do I part, I will be free because I choose to be, no matter what is the cost even death.

Even in death, I will be free. Free at last. Finally. Free from this daily poor health.

If you put a native person in a cage, his body is there but his spirit flew away.

I think had I not been given the skill to earn more in modern technological society, I would probably have been quite contented to live off the land. Probably still interested to do that someday, if I get the chance.