What then?

What then?

On Pre-State Hunters and State Entitlement

Misery is the cure to the modern disease of entitlement

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Sam Alaimo
May 13, 2025
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Gustave Doré. Roland à Roncevaux. 19th century.

“To be driven by our appetites alone is slavery, while to obey a law that we have imposed on ourselves is freedom.”—Rousseau

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