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WHAT, INDEED, IS A STATE, IF IT IS NOT AN AS*OCIATION OF CITIZENS UNITED BY LAW?. Over the past few years, the censorship and control over the flow of information on the internet has been increasing at an accelerating rate.  In many parts of the world (e.g. China and the Middle East), governments have stepped in and as*erted control over some or all of the information which is made available to their people.  In theory, at least, this is not an option for governments in most of Europe and the Anglosphere, due to their professed valuation of free speech.  Within the modern first world, the right to freely express yourself, to bring your intellectual goods (such as they may be) to the “marketplace of ideas” is thought to be well-nigh sacrosanct by the man on the street.  The United States even formally enshrines it in the Constitution via the First Amendment.  The government But of course, if there’s one thing we know about people, it’s that they’re tremendously good at getting around rules they don’t Many of us are familiar with the metaphor of the “cargo cult.” The term itself was coined by the famous physicist Richard Feynman (who, the way he had described it) in a speech he gave about transparency and integrity in science.  Briefly, the phenomenon of the cargo cult was observed in the South Pacific during World War II. Pacific Islanders would observe the Americans building runways and control towers, and soon after airplanes full of supplies would land and disgorge their contents of goodies.  The islanders would build their own bamboo mockups – runways, towers, even bamboo headsets for the “controllers” – expecting that planes full of food and medicines was taking place.  This led to a miscomprehension about how one could obtained the desired benefits. It’s essentially a crude form of philosophical nominalism, where the form and appearance exist without grasping any of the underlying fundamental reality. Politics in the United States have become an all-encompas*ing nightmare from which the average American cannot hope to escape.  As