"[we] live in a geographically constrained society ruled by laws collateralized by the state's monopoly of violence"
When we lived in Bloomington I built a fish pond in the back yard. I dug a hole, lined it with a thick layer of newspaper and then put in a plastic liner over that. I built a little waterfall and bridge over it and stocked it with coi. Best dang use I ever found for the HT.