Continents are categorised as such for convenience. It may be arbitrary, but human society can not function without definitions and categorisations. There is no evil conspiracy to control children, merely bureaucratic conventions, however arbitrary and poorly designed, for ease of classification. What will you rant about next? Traffic signials being some type of Pavlovian conditioning tool to make people be wary of the color "red" and "yellow," because the "green" dye-makers union control the 'gubermint?
The first and primary principle that every student must master is obedience, without which no instruction is possible. Man cannot "freethink" himself into mastering any technical skills, many of which are counter-intuitive. As Solon admonished the arrogant Athenians: learn to obey before you command. Accepting bureaucratic conventions is part of that obedience all students must master.
Indeed. One might as well call Romania a continent, which, were that definition foisted on the West over generations globally, would be convenient for Romanian dictators.
My point is that it's not arbitrary. It's precisely to elevate Europe to some supposed natural geographical separation from the metaphorical 'other' that this specific definition is undertaken. Arbitrary would be that lackadaisacal miscategorization without cause or reason. India, Greenland, land on either side of various conceivable separators would have been so defined as has been Europe were this arbitrary.
It's not arbitrary at all.
You go be well mastered as you will. As for me, I will continue to anticipate and advocate for increasing the ability of free sovereign people to secure themselves, their possessions and communities against rapine overlords seeking only power. Society is far more beneficial to all concerned with the individuals comprising it secure from violent force. This security increases every day, and we see that people are increasingly subjected to violent oppression globally, and that ability of technological advance strongly facilitates their resistance to coercive force as time goes on.
I point out that once sovereign free people effect their security from coercion, they need neither to obey, nor command. They then become able to voluntarily effect society, and this continues to burgeon daily. Wallow in your master's shadows as you will. Some people like that kind of thing.
All the miseries of this world are caused by reformers, such as yourself, who imagine themselves more "enlightened" than the collective wisdom of human history. Will you next redefine and reform the very language, with which you denigrate your betters? Perhaps the reference standards for measurements are also some evil conspiracies to keep the "sovereign free" people in "slavery." Individuals do not exist in the absence of a social construct. The liberties of their actions are limited by the realities of their sociocultural matrix. Men are granted privileges befitting their station and duty. Willful disobedience, for which you tirelessly advocate, is the single greatest sin of mankind, as enumerated by all of the world's religions.
That is blatantly obviously untrue. You cannot support with reason and logic your contention that we should all grovel before overlords, so you just lie.
Predatory overlords are the cause of all the misery in this world, and they used government to kill 200 million people during the 20th Century. That was no reform. It was genocide and the fruit of subservience to overlords that you recommend.
How did the very "overlords" you condemn for the miseries of the 20th century attain their power? Is it not through the revolt of the peasant muck against their betters, led by those malicious malcontents promising "reform"? Crack open the skull of any "reformer" and from there will spew forth innumerable, unimaginable evil. It is you who are deluded or intentionally untruthful regarding the reformers and the superfluous mongrels that have overtaken current world governments. Slaves make poor masters, and the consequences of elevating slaves and peasant muck into positions of authority have produced those very miseries you decry, or pretend to decry. Men need to know their place and role in their sociocultural matrix, not entertain delusions of grandeur, attempting to "reform" sociocultural institutions that gave them their very being or defile established natural order with their bumbling incompetence and evil. Rebellion is the only sin of mankind.
Deception, fraud, violence and every other lie and barbaric savagery you could name.
I am no reformer. The restoration of man's native liberty is not 'reforming' it. It's restoring it. It isn't my political recommendation that reform or restoration be undertaken. It is physics manifesting the core mechanisms of efficiency and decentralization that I merely note. It doesn't matter what I want or don't want. Certainly no one is going to act one way or the other to sate my desires.
The laws of physics are immune to politics, and mandate decentralization of the means of production. It recognizes no one as insignificant muck, nor noble overlords. It can't be amended, overturned, or banned. 2 + 2 = 4 is not a question. It is fact. It isn't my opinion, subject to debate, or optional. I don't propose it, recommend it, or change it.
Decentralization of the means of production destroys centralization of the means of production, and all your excoriation of me, muck, and liberty, or extolling violent psychopaths wading in the blood of their peers to take their wealth from them, doesn't change that equation one jot or tittle. Your tirades and opinions aren't facts, and won't change the laws of physics. Neither are, nor will mine.
I just note that this is happening. You rage against and advise us to not live in the universe that actually exists. Not only does your political stance fail to make any sense, it doesn't matter in the least.