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Anybody who has ever owned a dog who barked when strangers came near its owner's property has experienced the essential continuity between animal territoriality and human property. Our domesticated cousins of the wolf are instinctively smarter about this than a good many human political theorists.

— Eric S. Raymond Homesteading the Noosphere (1998)

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I publish this blog in part because I think it is my duty to speak taboo and unspeakable truths.

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