http://www.briankeithanderson.com/blog/2009/04/10/a-dire-prediction/ Provide, Protect, Preside Sun, 01 Aug 2010 07:32:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.briankeithanderson.com/blog/2009/04/10/a-dire-prediction/#comment-6967 Anderson Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:56:39 +0000 http://www.briankeithanderson.com/blog/?p=302#comment-6967 Iver: Think Rome. First came global domination. Then came opulence. Then came internal conflicts and external power concessions and collapses. Then came the barbarians to glut themselves on the spoils. Who dodged the barbarians? The earthly poor and worldly wise. Monks, nomads, nobodies (like John Galt). It's the easy but non-glamorous life. First step: get free land (like the Homestead Act). It must be gifted to the poor because the prices today are too high for an agrarian community. This project is a noble cause, surely someone will donate a section or two of tundra or desert. Don't you think? Iver: Think Rome. First came global domination. Then came opulence. Then came internal conflicts and external power concessions and collapses. Then came the barbarians to glut themselves on the spoils. Who dodged the barbarians? The earthly poor and worldly wise. Monks, nomads, nobodies (like John Galt). It’s the easy but non-glamorous life. First step: get free land (like the Homestead Act). It must be gifted to the poor because the prices today are too high for an agrarian community. This project is a noble cause, surely someone will donate a section or two of tundra or desert. Don’t you think?

]]> http://www.briankeithanderson.com/blog/2009/04/10/a-dire-prediction/#comment-6885 Iver Anderson Sun, 12 Apr 2009 02:36:56 +0000 http://www.briankeithanderson.com/blog/?p=302#comment-6885 Where do those people who turn to virtuous lives go to get away from those who would be barbarians? Where do those people who turn to virtuous lives go to get away from those who would be barbarians?

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