Yeah, I am rambly today, my apologies. My thesis is basically this: - the urban experience is going to be the normal human experience (if not already, in the

Yeah, I am rambly today, my apologies. My thesis is basically this: - the urban experience is going to be the normal human experience (if not already, in the future) - in the urban environment, it's natural to accept general restrictions on behavior, b/c without such restrictions your freedom-of-action becomes more constrained - the politics are reversed from the underlying assumptions of heartland americans and folk political theorists: instead of restrictions on action being tragic necessities to deal with a handful of extreme edge cases (like dumping 1 ton of arsenic), restrictions on action become the necessary prerequisite of freedom (they provide the personal space that allows those actions) - the consequence of this is that restriction and regulation will be seen as sensible and normal on the part of the majority - this actually matters, because whatever private property you think you have you ultimately have on account of societal consensus; to see this in action, consider what happens when two societies intersect...property rights recognized within one are not always recognized within the other (the native americans, the kulaks, the barbarians in rome, etc.) - or, shorter: private property rights are the bedrock of modern societies, but their exact contours -- what they permit and deny -- are not fixed, and are always ultimately a political issue - once things are a political issue, whether or not you're thought of ass an ass starts to matter, as political issues are matters of public taste That's pretty much it, not sure we disagree much.