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I met a couple of girls from Mongolia in the elevator at the hotel the other day. About the only thing I could strike up conversation with them was Mongolian beef and Ghengis Khan. I guess you’ve got to accentuate the positive, so to speak.
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I often dreamed of being wealthy enough to finance the construction of a 500 foot tall statue of Hernan Cortez with laser eyes here in Omaha. Not that I admire Cortez, but I thought perhaps it could prompt an appearance by Neil Young who would show up to protest, allowing me to inquire as to whether he and Gordon Lightfoot have ever enjoyed a Labat Blue together.
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A national monument? But surely only governments can provide funding for national monuments!
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I would like to see a huge statue of Genghis Khan killing Inalchuq by pouring molten silver on his head.
It would be a marvelous reminder not to show your hated enemies any mercy. Merely defeating them and executing them isn’t enough.-
That wiki article described typical government profligacy with the lives and money of the subjects they control. Beheading each other’s representatives for trivial reasons then starting a war…
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“apparently a private company rather than the government, though I don’t know how sharp that distinction is”
Are you saying This particular company is not very distinctive from a government, or that all private companies are not very distinctive government?
Say it aint so roderick! I hope private companies don’t become hacked off the left-libertarian axe!
All hail private property!
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I just meant that I don’t know how entangled business and government are in Mongolia.
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About Roderick T. Long
The Empirical Me
I’m Roderick T. Long, Professor of Philosophy at Auburn University. I’m an Aristotelean/Wittgensteinian in philosophy and a left-libertarian market anarchist in social theory. (More about me here.) This blog, Austro-Athenian Empire, is a continuation of my earlier blog, archived here.
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