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 @Suika Eszterházy @Leyonhjelm @Basades Kaiser @203536d6 @:pumpkin_jump: Saṁain Goat :pumpkin_jump: @Caleb James DeLisle Full quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1344195-what-an-extraordinary-episode-in-the-economic-progress-of-man

Unfortunately, compulsory government education has all but eradicated our societies' memories of times before nation states and passports, and deeply engrained the status quo as some sort of normal, natural state of human existence, for which there is no alternative, lest we'd be immediately overrun by barbarians. 
 @da8a5860 @Suika Eszterházy @Leyonhjelm @203536d6 @:pumpkin_jump: Saṁain Goat :pumpkin_jump: @Caleb James DeLisle ia not government education, is the enlightenment, plus keeping foreigners out is a positive.