ON FENCES AND PROPERTY

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Date: 09/10/2001 18:23

From: Marcos Barbará

To: Pablo Murad

Subject: On Fences and Property


Hello Pablo,

"The first man who, having enclosed a piece of land, thought of saying 'this is mine' and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society. How many crimes, wars, murders, misfortunes, and horrors would the human race have been spared if someone had torn down the fences and cried: 'No, impostor!'"
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Until soon,
Marcos Barbxxara