Smartphone mania
(Hat tip to my student, Catherine Rios-Lunarejo, for alerting me to the web site collecting these photos.)
Sure, Tom, just 1%:
Sure, Tom, just 1%:
In ancapistan, if you have no property, you have no rights
Ancaps often declare, "All rights are property rights." I was thinking about this the other day, in the context of running into libertarians online who insisted that libertarianism supports "the freedom of movement," and realized that this principle actually entails that people without property have no rights at all, let alone any right to "freedom of movement." Of course, immediately, any ancap readers still left here are going to say, "Wait a second! Everyone owns his own body! And so everyone at least has the right to not have his body interfered with." Well, that is true... except that in ancapistan, one has no right to any place to put that body, except if one owns property, or has the permission of at least one property owner to place that body on her land. So, if one is landless and penniless, one had sure better hope that there are kindly disposed property owners aligned in a corridor from wherever one happens to be to wherever the...
I see it as some sort of mental affliction, can't quite tell if it is yet an identifiable disease. I love info and whatnot, but one cannot help but notice that everybody around them has their face in their phone.
ReplyDeleteHow's Tom?
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ReplyDeleteEscuse me, who's Tom?
ReplyDeleteKnapp. He once asserted here that only 1% of Americans did anything with their phones other than make calls.
ReplyDelete?! Does he live by himself in a log cabin in the deep Poconos?
DeleteClose: Arkansas.
DeleteIt's awful, isn't it? To paraphrase you, it's like something out of a Phil Dick novel. I'm not being sarcastic. But it is ironic, that I'm typing this from my galaxy S4.
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