I hate the use of the word ‘public’ as a synonym for ‘government’. The government is the government and the public is what is not the government.
But I am not here to save the English language, I am here to save the planet.
– Leon Louw, at today’s Libertarian Alliance/Libertarian International conference in London
True and good words.
I hope they made an impression on the young people attending the conference – young people who will certainly not have been told such things at school or university.
Louw’s entire lecture – on how to privately own the open seas – was brillant. Actually, pretty much everything that man writes is great to read. And he gave yesterday’s talk while suffering jetlag after having just got off a long flight from Cape Town, where he lives.
I thought Leon Louw’s talk was amazing. To have been messed around by two governments, suffering jetlag, giving the lecture at a time much earlier than he was expecting, plus technological hold ups, that he gave such an incredibly informative and witty talk was brilliance.
Jetlag? from Capetown? I was under the impression that Capetown was on GMT. I could understand if he was tired from a long flight, but that’s not jetlag.
Feel free to correct me, the pedant needs to know when he is wrong so that he may be more right in future 🙂
A brilliant man, I wish I could have been there.
The problem is that not only the politicians, but also the News / MSM folk, want “the public” to be the same as “the gov’t”. This false equivalence is a problem.