Wow, that Crow Falls Down person has some really interesting ideas! They’re a great writer, too — the beauty of their language is, if anything, blowing me away even more than the power of their ideas (which would be sufficient to blow me away all on its own).

Thanks for linking their post; not sure I ever would’ve read it otherwise.

I don’t quite grasp the thing about labor, though. “If a man works hard to get what he deserves, then he deserves none of it. Desserts are either created by labor, and thus the property of all and none, or they are accident, and being mere good fortune, belong no more to their winners than does the light of distant stars.”

I don’t understand why a good created by someone’s labor wouldn’t belong to that person, if it was the sort of thing that could belong to just one person. What I understand to be the fallacy of the libertarian position — that everything I have, I have because I earned it — is that it refuses to understand the role that luck and other people’s labor play in enabling you to be “self-supporting.” I do not understand why a person wouldn’t have first dibs on, say, a fish that they caught or a batch of cookies that they baked.

I like their characterization of liberals in this post, though. And their discussion of why gun hoarders really aren’t revolutionary at all, and their really moving description of childhood in hierarchical cultures like this one.

What a brilliant, compassionate person.

(I’m saying all this to you because Tumblr has no comments, alas.)