I meant "state," and was sloppy in my terms ironically in hope of aiding understanding since no one here even seems to know what distinguishes a state from a na

I meant "state," and was sloppy in my terms ironically in hope of aiding understanding since no one here even seems to know what distinguishes a state from a nation. The distinction here between state and feudal (ie vassal) lord is in sovereignty and should be trivial to all but a Randite, which is what you argue like whether you claim the allegiance or not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44231857 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44231857 I've always found it a bewildering irony that soi-disant "objectivists" should so constantly display such pervasive inclarity of thought, and the "rationalists" lately likewise. What you really want to talk about and don't know it is a warlord. But we do at least agree that Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos or any of that ilk, and any given Somali "general," deserve to be taken about as seriously as one another.