Tue Nov 8 04:55:35 2022
(*9cb05920*):: +public!
Historically, we could seek new frontiers away from the State. People shook off the chains and moved away from the stifling control of settled lands, but the State followed.
In many cases, these pioneers brought the state with them.
In other cases, once the trail was blazed, lesser men followed with the State in tow.
In any case, freedom-minded people often drifted to the frontier to homestead or to live alongside the native tribes. While I don’t mean to invoke the noble savage trope, then, as now, conflict was instigated by government trespass. When the government followed, politicians lied, stole, cheated, broke treaties, and murdered innocents from the start