"I'm convinced that in a healthy society, artistic norms should be constantly under question which is not of course, to deny the need for continuity."

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Anybody who has ever owned a dog who barked when strangers came near its owner's property has experienced the essential continuity between animal territoriality and human property. Our domesticated cousins of the wolf know, instinctively, that property is no mere social convention or game, but a critically important evolved mechanism for the avoidance of violence. (This makes them smarter than a good many human political theorists.)

— Eric S. Raymond