By reading exactly this sentence you have proved a whole branch of the political philosophy spectrum: The Austrian praxeological approach on human action and economics. If you stop now, you prove it no less than if you continue reading. And isn't that just beautiful?
Are you still reading? Good for you. How did you just prove a whole political philosophy by reading a single paragraph (or not)? Because by doing so (or not), you chose a certain action, decided you use your time, available to you because you own your own body, on something rather than something else. No-one has a pistol pointed towards you and is forcing you to read (or skip it). No-one forced you to read or not read. You chose, you acted, and thereby you prove that you are an individual, have values, a time-preference (you do one thing rather than another because you choose it), and that's pretty much all there is to say about it.
If you doubt that you chose to read this, are an individual or did something as an individual rather than as a part of "society" or "the public", then read this (wont take more than 15-25 minutes and could change the way you look at everything forever). Heck, read it no matter if you believe you prove a whole system of thought or not. It will do you good (according to my value-scale).
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