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 nostr:npub1wahdrf28uf5n5tykfeyzf43sdgg65djvm8re3ulpentr3teaxujs09xc8t nostr:npub1k0hl4qcra2q5fj9z6e969mref53cy75jcsp7gyq3f65wqme00c4qjxxygc nostr:npub1hye323nnrzdelu2zy3862rf2et50c3kvp29nqk59klfts363hktqvlfr7p nostr:npub1yq6nd438v3cjy9yxj8ff2ne2wqamy3xc2f8kpkl3zq5nrynwvp7s320mz4 nostr:npub1mr92cjapdpqkted8ppxwlnwlxg27t6eq2v564usutcw497q8plaqfn3xh4 nostr:npub1mh5a6mhm4u78glqxhltq7uexv6kddphycthlguvn0ux8ch72tc8q6q233h 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.