Perhaps it is not enough to present the public with a set of largely negative ideas. Perhaps, when we scour history for great thinkers whose ideas on the freedom of the individual are akin to our own, we should also read what they had to say about how one should live. As scrapmen, we shall undoubtedly be useful to society, used by society, and even paid by society. However, society will never give us a place at the dinner table. We shall remain on the margins of mainstream thinking, just as scrapyards are restricted to the margins of our cities.
Society needs scrapmen, but it glorifies builders.
It is time to build, and we have precious few bricks that we can call our own. Libertarianism is a philosophical mudhut. Let us, then, pillage the temples of antiquity for building materials that have stood the test of time. Indeed, I borrowed one of his names to give to the third of my three sons. He also placed the idea of natural law above all states and religions.