nostr:npub1pu6zualylf5ut8hz9el6kzmng946wty843g7qyn6d8mc999pmrkqwau9fd nostr:npub1t3d0yc2kmf6qqcd7tg63smeg7r9xdvea734kr9mmklfdvuk0f2wszwqnlg I feel sure that Gerrard Winstanley and his Diggers thought the same in 1649 when troops attacked his settlement on common land. "Land doesn't belong to one person and not another," he imagined. "Wrong!" said the government.

Or maybe go back 2000 years when a strange cult arose that believed a crucified Jew was a god. The Romans of the day thought such people bonkers - and sent them into the coliseum to be ripped apart by animals for sport.

Or go back to 5000 BC when people, who up until then had been foragers and nomads in the main, turned into farmers and pursuers of agriculture who started hoarding things and creating surpluses. What madness is this?

Human history is replete with incomprehensible and consequential ideas.

The question is: do we love freedom or power? 

Because you can't have both.