On PBS last night, Pizarro conquered the Inca empire, made Peru safe for Spanish immigrants in quantity. The Strib this morning reported that Red McCoombs has acquired 240 acres of the best ski country in the world, is planning to build accomodations for 10,000 in an area where 800 people now run some nice small ski operations. (With the money he makes on a deal like this, Red could buy a mountain, where he could ski without lots of people around.) Most teenagers are just stuffed full of useful organs, with which they aren't doing much at the moment.
Lots of people have claims to things that other people want, and think they could use much better. Lots of small, first-rate things could be traded in for vastly larger quantities of second-rate things. And the laws of ownership and exchange get written by the one who wins, in the long run, and quite often by the one who makes the largest campaign contribution, in the short run.
In the Republic, Socrates suggests that someone who has trouble reading a text written in small letters might do well to look for the same text in a larger format. Red, meet Pizarro.
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