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Pirates: Great Pirates:
"Penobscot, Blue Hill, and Frenchman’s Bay were up to World War I the summer residence country of what Bucky Fuller speaks of as history’s ‘Great Pirates,’ These were the men who ran the world as a consequence of their commanding the oceans of the Earth-- for the oceans of the Earth governed three-quarters of our planet. Because the laws invented and adopted by dry-land-dwelling people cannot be enforced either logically or practically over the ever moving ocean waters beyond their political entity’s shores, the ocean seas are inherently outside the man-made laws. Only the physical laws of raw nature govern the seas.
“The high seas sailormen were inherently ‘outlaws’-- therefore pirates. When one high seas crew seized another ship, she was called a prize into which they entered-- ergo, enterprize. Because the greatest pirates were, literally speaking, ‘privately enterprising outlaws,’ Bucky used the contracted form of this term, which is simply ‘pirate’, to identify them. The great pirates were inherently world people because they were masters of the World Ocean. Land people are local people and think locally. Ocean people are world people and think world.”
¶ Citations
- BEAR ISLAND STORY, galley pp.25-26, 1968
