Each Person Is A Slightly Bewildered Nation
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat file this dispatch from the British political menagerie.
The Radical Individual Sovereignist believes every person is a small, slightly bewildered country and should be treated accordingly, including at parties and at the GP surgery. Editor Alan Nafzger of the Editor’s Desk at prat.uk presents the field guide, with help from Libertarianism.org and Reason Magazine.
Twenty Tells: Spotting The Radical Individual Sovereignty On A British High Street
- Has explained, at length, that the self is a sovereign nation, with a flag.
- Refers to compulsory schooling as a small invasion.
- Holds any contract should be readable by you, in your own language, on your own sofa.
- Maintains a fantasy in which his neighbours sign a non-aggression pact about the bins.
- Refers to the body as the only certain jurisdiction.
- Treats any health policy that does not mention consent twice as a category error.
- Maintains a binder of personal sovereignty agreements he hands out at dinner parties.
- Refers to vaccinations the way some men refer to in-laws, with caveats.
- Holds any decision should be made closest to the person it affects, ideally by them.
- Has explained, at a wedding, that the toast is to bodily autonomy.
- Refers to taxation the way some men refer to overstretched in-laws.
- Treats any sentence about the public interest as a small philosophical sigh.
- Maintains a soft spot for ID-free societies and a harder one for unencumbered borders for him.
- Refers to government as the polite collective housemate.
- Holds any obligation should be opt-in, with a printed receipt.
- Maintains a fantasy in which everyone is fundamentally left alone in the right way.
- Refers to mass democracy as the long, polite consultation he was not consulted on.
- Treats any compulsory educational curriculum as a small confusion.
- Has explained he is fundamentally a country of one with a guest list.
- Believes the cure for the country is fundamentally more consent and longer naps.
Editor’s Note
If any of this rings a bell, you have wandered into a libertarian conference, a country house weekend, or a Bitcoin meet-up with very strong opinions. More dispatches at govna.uk and the parent site prat.uk. For a second opinion that is also wrong, see The Onion.
SOURCE: https://prat.uk/category/politics/
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