"The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not anyone have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows, "Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody."
Since I've never been a fan of Rousseau and his writings, Stacey and I have decided to purchase a house. We feel the time is right because prices are dropping, interest rates are about as low as they can go and are expected to rise soon, and we both came up with the idea independently of each other.
Although we are meeting with a realtor Monday, we have no real timeline for this other than as soon as we can find a house in the North Seattle/Shoreline area we like enough to go through the whole financing and moving hassle for. I would like to time the move so that it coincides with one of Jon Caldwell's trips to Seattle so he can move my heavy boxes of books one more time.
*
Once in college, I ran into the fairly attractive grad student helping teach my Political Theory class on the bus and tried to use my hatred of the French philosopher as an icebreaker . As you can imagine, things went downhill rather fast after that.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
lol. No, but seriously, that's awesome.
ReplyDelete