Brilliant. I would go even farther though, and argue that the system of representative government itself cannot support the kind of politician you say we need:
Brilliant. I would go even farther though, and argue that the system of representative government itself cannot support the kind of politician you say we need:
i think that it could back in a period where there was a frontier and those who found the chafe of civilization too odious could simply move on and form new ones.
i suspect it might be able to, at least to a significant degree, if states were confederated, but not held by a federal system and could secede and or drop federal laws because their own legislation superseded that of DC and then allowing people to "vote with their feet" and chose where to take their lives and livlihoods.
intellectually, yes, even the things given up by libertarians to forms a government to protect rights does start a slippery slope toward the accumulation and over-reach of government power, but if we could create, in effect, a market where locales competed for people who had free right of movement, we could be doing a damn sight better than this and possibly start the ball rolling toward the sort of voluntary only polities that might actually realize the anarcho-capitalist dream of human flourishing.
as a practicality, such AC cannot be achieved or adopted all at once. we're going to need some incrementalism. but the technology is on out side here and the movement of communications, social commons, internet, markets, and money to non-governmental swarm sourced systems owned by no one and supported as open protocols on distributed, de-centralized systems is going to erode the foundations of leviathan in a manner never before seen in human history.
the future is bright and it's time to get started.
Yes, it is. And we have the tools to peacefully "secede" in many ways right now: Local nullification of state and federal laws; cryptocurrencies; Private Membership Associations, etc. We have an unprecedented opportunity to create our own societies from within the one that is falling apart around us.
Brilliant. I would go even farther though, and argue that the system of representative government itself cannot support the kind of politician you say we need:
https://bretigne.typepad.com/on_the_banks/2016/10/the-real-reason-libertarians-dont-matter.html
i think that it could back in a period where there was a frontier and those who found the chafe of civilization too odious could simply move on and form new ones.
i suspect it might be able to, at least to a significant degree, if states were confederated, but not held by a federal system and could secede and or drop federal laws because their own legislation superseded that of DC and then allowing people to "vote with their feet" and chose where to take their lives and livlihoods.
intellectually, yes, even the things given up by libertarians to forms a government to protect rights does start a slippery slope toward the accumulation and over-reach of government power, but if we could create, in effect, a market where locales competed for people who had free right of movement, we could be doing a damn sight better than this and possibly start the ball rolling toward the sort of voluntary only polities that might actually realize the anarcho-capitalist dream of human flourishing.
as a practicality, such AC cannot be achieved or adopted all at once. we're going to need some incrementalism. but the technology is on out side here and the movement of communications, social commons, internet, markets, and money to non-governmental swarm sourced systems owned by no one and supported as open protocols on distributed, de-centralized systems is going to erode the foundations of leviathan in a manner never before seen in human history.
the future is bright and it's time to get started.
Yes, it is. And we have the tools to peacefully "secede" in many ways right now: Local nullification of state and federal laws; cryptocurrencies; Private Membership Associations, etc. We have an unprecedented opportunity to create our own societies from within the one that is falling apart around us.