Hope you all had a beautiful Palm Sunday—the strangest liturgy of the year, I think, from an affective standpoint. From shouting “Hosannah!” to shouting “Crucify Him!!” in 3.7 liturgical seconds. Chalk it up to Perfidious Jews if ya want, but there’s a lesson in there for all of us…
Well, Nick Szabo has kicked off what appears to be a new series: The many traditions of non-governmental money (part i). If you’re not reading Nick Szabo, you’re probably not qualified to talk about money. Szabo doesn’t need our accolades but the Committee was arrogant enough to name this an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀ anyway.
VDH has a dozen Scandal Questions Never Asked, Much Less Answered. As well, he surveys Our Long History of Misjudging North Korea.
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Fritz Pendleton had time to write a short letter this week: Sunday Thoughts—Brilliant Aphorism Edition.
We have another tasting of GA Blog’s unique blend of political philosophy aged linguistic oak casks in Declarative Culture and Imperium in Imperio.
Neocolonial checks in with bullet points on Moral Transposition. Among them:
Good and Evil inherently reference the in-group, and seek its growth in absolute capability and glory. Love and Hate inherently reference the out-group, and seek its relative growth in capability and privilege.
But do RTWT. It’s short, and an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀.
Alrenous provides some commentary on Political Formula(e).
Friend of this blog, Anatoly Karlin, provided extensive commentary on Russia’s presidential election (1,2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7). A must read if you’re into Russian presidential elections. Anatoly also claims that the alt right is dead. Which raises the question, was the Alt-Right ever really alive to start with? Worth considering.
The recent outrage provides an occasion for Malcolm Pollack to reflect on The Second Amendment, and the Third Law. That’s Robert Conquest’s Third Law, of course. Which you have memorized, of course. Also this was a very funny (and true) aphorism: Empty calories.
By way of Isegoria… We could never have prepped what happened in Venezuela. Jordan Peterson is trying to save the Western civilization by devising a post-Christian system of ethics. Imagining An alternative universe in which golf courses are a prime subject for intellectualizing—beware NYT editors bearing under-hyped minorities to hype. They’re already vastly over-hyped. Mass killings are rare, and mass public shootings are even rarer—of course. Related: Any study of gun violence should include how guns save lives.
Finally this week in Cambria Will Not Yield, Like Unto That of a Little Child. He thinks James A. Fitzpatrick’s “Voice of the Globe” short documentaries are going to have to be memory-holed.
What is glaringly apparent when we view the Fitzpatrick vignettes is that diversity does not work. It is unnatural to expect birds of different feather to flock together, and it is also, more importantly, un-Christian to destroy the Christ-bearing race by colorizing their civilization. There is no one with a heart that still lives who could prefer modern Europe to the Europe we see in the Fitzpatrick travelogues. And yet somebody did prefer a diverse Europe to a non-diverse Europe, because that is the Europe we now have.James Fitzpatrick of “Travelogue fame” onboard RMS CARONIA Feb 1951
The Europe that Fitzpatrick presents is a Europe about to crumble, but the accumulated Christian capital still present in those European nations is on glorious display in all of the shorts. South Africa is shown as a bastion of civilization in the Dark Continent. Australia is depicted as a shining testimonial to the white race. And the scenes of rural England, Denmark, Holland, and the rest of the European nations provide us with a wonderful view of non-diverse Europe. Is it paradise? No, of course not; only in comparison to modern, diverse Europe was old Europe paradise.
This Week in Jim Donald
Jim opened up the week making the claim that there are no utilitarians. Since Scott Alexander actually exists, Jim had some ‘splaining to do.
Whosoever claims to be a utilitarian is lying. Whosoever lies, is lying because he is defecting on those he lies to, seeks to harm, or is harming, those he lies to. In the case of utilitarianism, the lie is the claim to care about far, in order to cover actions or intentions harmful to near.Red haired girl.
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But the ingroup are our direct competitors for status, power, and wealth – they occupy, and threaten, our own ecological niche. Thus the evil man always seeks to ally with far in order to destroy those closest to him. Hence leftism. Thus the evil man always loudly claims to love the outgroup.
Well, there you go, makes sense, sounds real. RTWT, and don’t neglect to get into the comments too. Alrenous and Jim have a nice back and forth with Alrenous claiming everyone is a utilitarian. My natural contrarianism tempts me to wade in and stake out the moderate position that some people are utilitarians and some aren’t, but grappling with both Jim and Alrenous at once is well beyond my limited abilities.
And a rare post from Jim that is a bit of a downer as he counsels don’t vote. Voting is, of course, the sort of vice that a reactionary would never engage in… or if he did, he wouldn’t admit it and would wash his hands afterwards. Jim is reacting to the recent Trump capitulation on the omnibus spending bill, and is right to be a bit down about it. Most people had already thrown in the towel on Trump being the beginning of a turnaround, but Jim had largely maintained his optimism.
Electing Trump has made a big difference. But he has has not made a big enough difference to prevent the government from electing a new people.
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But all these things are pretty small potatoes compared to illegal immigration. Trump can’t even send back the DACA illegals.
The new people are still being elected. The great erasure continues.
The Official Position of TWiR has been, is, and will likely continue to be for the foreseeable future: Trump buys us some time, nothing more, nothing less. He was never going to be the God-Emperor, he might be able to ram through a few marginal improvements by sheer force of will, but that’s it. He is just one man, and, in a sense, he arrived too early because the thousand statesmen who could’ve been put in to break the Cathedral are not ready yet.
This Week in Social Matter
Costin Alamariu kicks off our week here explaining why Matthew Rose Is Wrong About The ‘Alt-Right’. It is a thoroughgoing rebuttal of this attempt by First Things to be hip and relevant. Worthwhile is his analysis of the inability of mainstream pundits to wrap their heads around the edgelords. And funny:
People like Rick Wilson, among many others, who never really recovered from this assault on their egos, concluded that these could by no means have been Americans: “AnimePepe who asked what I have conserved as a conservative, and who knows all this history and about all these recent genetic studies, this is un-American. This has to be Russian intel.”
Indirectly, this is also how this very enterprising and impish part of the American youth contributed to Trump’s victory in a small way. By driving the solipsistic journalist class mad with teasing, Hillary Clinton was led into giving the disastrous “alt-right” speech (very likely written for her by Rick Wilson, Evan McMullin, or someone with connections to the “conservative” Straussian school). The effect of this speech on people who didn’t know about what was happening on Twitter—the vast majority of Americans—was to make Hillary look completely insane. She sounded like she was talking about them, about Americans at large, and was connecting them with this made-up “alt-right,” a Putinist global conspiracy, and cartoon frogs.
Don’t miss the “Parents, Beware!” PSA he has up. Gnon has a way or reasserting itself when and where you least expect it! Alamriu garners an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀ for his excellent efforts here.
Hubert Collins is here Tuesday with An Immodest Proposal For Ending The Opioid Crisis. I don’t recall seeing the data on this crisis presented quite so clearly. Death rates have gone vertical since about 2014. And the lion’s share of the drugs in question are manufactured legally. He wants to stop heroin from entry, of course, but he wants the government to go after Big Pharma too:
The idea would be to introduce to the pharmaceutical industry what libertarian economic historian Robert Higgs calls “regime uncertainty.” As defined by the Mises Wiki, regime uncertainty is: “a pervasive lack of confidence among investors in their ability to foresee the extent to which future government actions will alter their private-property rights.” Normally, this is meant to describe the kind of economic slump a country can enter in when every major industry is fearful that it may be next in line to get nationalized, so risky innovation, infrastructure maintenance, and investment plummet. That is certainly a bad thing; but when an entire industry is playing and profiting with drugs that are the leading cause of death in a nation, it is a good thing. Those companies should be fearful that some day the state’s hammer will fall.
Leading cause of untimely death, at any rate. This too was an ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀. Collins spends some ink dealing with the question of whether nationalization of industries is “legal”. Raison d’État sounds good to me. Speaking of which, don’t the neoliberals over at New America realize that the phrase “Opioid Epidemic” is a white supremacist dogwhistle?!!
New-comer Jérôme Bernard Grenouille is up on Thursday with The Principle Of Loss: A Reactionary’s Introduction To Georges Bataille, little known on the right or the left.
Jean-Paul Sartre condemned his “mysticism”. His enemies within the Left accused him of Surfascisme (Overfascism). His background, ideas, and unapologetic Nietzscheanism render Bataille wholly toxic to the Left. For an intellectual family which leaves less and less space for nuance, the Left has little use of Bataille.
But Grenouille thinks that maybe the Right does. According to Bataille:
[T]he purity of poetry is the purity of the sacral, but by extension all useless expenditure is one way or another a human attempt at creating the divine. All loss is worship. This notion is very familiar the reactionary mind, scoffing at the state of his world: if cut off from religion and God, the singular man will worship athletes and celebrities.
Or sometimes university professors. Sacrifice needs to be expensive, whereas both “sides” of the political divide are in their own ways mired in utilitarianism. This leaves the reactionary with some pretty explosive ammunition:
The bourgeois class, the ruling class, whether liberal or conservative, is cut from the same cloth and Bataille understood that the ruling class is unfit to rule. In his essay, he makes makes a prescription using the principle of loss on the right to rule: since the ruling classes have generally been the ones with the greatest wealth, they were historically the ones in charge of making the most significant expenditures on behalf of the whole of society. One may think back to the public games organised the Roman rulers or to the magnificent cathedrals of the middle ages. Bataille notes something singular about our ruling class, which is obsessed and governed by the principle of utility: its refusal to make that expenditure. That is, the current ruling class loses all legitimacy because it is unwilling to engage in all “production of sacred things”. This refusal of the moneyed classes are the most apparent in the aesthetic debauchery of its art and architecture and its naive materialism.
Ammunition, once we figure out how to deploy it, at any rate… There’s much more here. Congratulations to Grenouille for ☀☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Award☀☀. On his rookie debut, no less.
This week’s Myth of the 20th Century podcast is slightly lighter fare than usual: Episode 62: Coup d’Clown—The Plot To Seize The White House, and features an excellent discussion of why it is that America has gone so long without a serious coup threat.
Finally, for Saturday’s Poetry & Prose column, E. Antony Gray has some of his own verse on offer: The Poet To His Mother.
This Week in Human Biodiversity
Audacious Epigone has some admiration for The Han Hundred. And he runs some numbers on the Great Sub-saharan African Migration (to the United States): Slowly at first, then all at once.
Gregory Cochran announces a forthcoming review of David Reich’s Who We Are and How We Got Here, and ponders the fact that the US has only successfully decoded 2% of intercepted Soviet messages.
Cochran also looks at some of the ways in which ¡Science! isn’t always “self-correcting”. Three guesses and the first two don’t count. A sample:
Eric Turkheimer seems to think that the possibility of racial IQ differences is refuted by an “ethical principle that individual and cultural accomplishment is not tied to the genes in the same way as the appearance of our hair”. That’s an odd argument. Does it work with Downs and Fragile X? I doubt if he has ever used it for any other issue. Should I use it to deny the possibility of a nuclear chain reaction, or smallpox epidemics, or asteroid strikes? If he thought that there just weren’t any such differences, he wouldn’t need special new ‘logical’ principles to prevent them from existing—would he?
Evolutionist X kicks off the week with Further thoughts on the end of America, replete with folksy meme. She starts with children’s history written in the first half of the 20th Century, which is of course implicitly white supremacist as you know what. By the 90s history had become herstory too.
She has some notes and observations on Nootropics and Gender.
Rounding out the week for Anthropology Friday, more from Totemism and Exogamy pt 2/3: Plagues, Polyandry, and Infanticide. This is from 1910, which makes it delightfully politically incorrect.
This Week at Thermidor Mag
Over at Thermidor, we kick off the week with Gio Pennacchietti’s indictment: Reprobate Hollywood, From Ancient to Modern. We all agree that it’s a cesspit. He looks at the why.
I would argue that the soul and character of Hollywood is a certain way because, in this time of manufactured spectacle, such an institution has always attracted people of a certain disposition. What do actors deal with primarily? Illusions, not in the way a painting is an illusion. Paintings share a broken or interpretive character with reality—an idealized or abstracted reality, whereas acting takes another step towards “realism” or the illusion of realism by mimesis. It is the uses and abuses of mimesis that the ancients were most concerned about when developing their discourses on art and aesthetics.
While Pennacchietti draws some ammunition from some unexpected sources—Horkheimer and Adorno—he adopts the motif of “Culture Industry” and it’s takeover by Hollywood. Cultures are not supposed to be manufactured things in the first place, right?
[T]he truth of the Cathedral-entertainment-industrial complex, is precisely the truth of the “battle for the mind of North America”. An ongoing info-war, one in which our cultural masters schizophrenically sway between panicking over their waning influence in the Internet age, and being triumphalist in their ability to continually subdue the mental landscape of the masses. The issue at hand is the metaphysical disposition of our current hyper-information age and the penumbra cast by Hollywood upon it, and for this, we must highlight a basic artistic inversion present within the modern world.
The by now all too familiar inversion of high and low, beauty and ugly, skillful and shoddy. Anyway, there’s much more there there in this must read essay. An ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Silver Circle Award☀ winner.
This week’s Europa Weekly podcast covers Trailer Park Goys.
Richard Carroll provides a wonderful guide on How to Read the Iliad. In a shocking reversal of what I would usually recommend, I prefer the newer translations. They tend to capture the stark brutality of the original Greek; our old poets did a real hackjob trying to fit The Iliad into English meter. Reading Homer is a journey into the primeval barbarism that coalesced into western civilization; more Beowulf than Paradise Lost. (If we were actually literate, and not what passes for it nowadays, we would read the original, and the debate would be pointless.)
Jake Bowyer avers There is No End, i.e., no end goal (telos) of left agitation, and that probably explains why we never see an end of it.
Finally, Nigel T. Carlsbad explains looks at The Imperial Presidency That Never Comes. America has done a fantastic job at insulating itself against the excesses of democracy, no doubt.
The paradox here is that the strengthening of the executive branch doesn’t have any straightforward effect on the chief executive himself. More often than not, he is weakened. The ones who profit off the dismantling of federalism are the myriad of agencies regulated in some way by the Administrative Procedure Act.
Carlsbad takes a (relatively) high view of Harding as well as old-school political machines. Heckuva lot more honest than the shenanigans we’ve got going on these says. We approve! An ☀“Official” #NRx Best of the Week Honorable Mention☀.
This Week Around The Orthosphere
Cologero presents notes on The Moral Universe. Also a fine exposition on The Primacy of Will in “esoteric psychology”.
Cane Caldo doesn’t like what the opposite of “liberal” is… but he is it anyway. Grasp the nettle, friends! Moar on the topic.
Thomas F. Bertonneau reviews Jean-Pierre Dupuy’s Mark of the Sacred, which paints Globalism as Sacrificial Crisis.
James Kalb writes The Darkness Gathers: Why public discussion has become increasingly irrational, pinning the blame on giant, politically interested institutions controlling the discourse. For example:
The Supreme Court’s grand project of human liberation thus reduces to the right to make career, hobby, lifestyle, and consumption choices that can easily be accommodated within a global regulated economic order that programmatically loosens personal connections. “Each of us defines his own moral reality” turns out, when reduced to a workable system, to mean “the strongest define moral reality.”
Matt Briggs reviews The Case for Miracles, where its author Lee Strobel Asks, “Are Miracles Real & Still Happening?” His empirically determined conclusion: Yes, indeed they are. Then he examines Why Christians Supported, And Still Support, Trump. Maybe it’s just because Trump is nice to them. Also, Prairie Fire in the Classroom: Bill Ayers’s Bloodless Revolution—Guest Post by Kevin Groenhagen chronicles the Marxist creep in elementary education. Then Briggs revels in the (Hot) Air Let Out of California’s Climate Change Lawsuit when not one but two judge-ordered climate change amici briefs both agree that the data do not conclusively demonstrate whether climate change is man-made. Finally, incarcerating homeschoolers, university-awarded happiness badges, and rich white men pushing the transgender agenda, all in this week’s Insanity & Doom Update XXVII.
Bonald pens a brief but salient note: People will have existential crises on command. For a while, Alienation was the New Black. All the popular kids were doing it, then…
[T]he Left-wing cultural establishment decided that alienation was no longer high status–now only losers and fascists want to feel at home in the world and crave an organic connection to a people and place.
Mark Richardson provides an example through Hungary of what a national identity, which is greater than any individual of that nation and encompasses them all, can provide a people When There is Something There.
William Wildblood explains how England Led the World Into Materialism.
England was probably the first country to adopt the mindset that led to the materialisation of consciousness and the present-day attitudes in which God has no place. It was a pioneer in many areas that formed the contemporary world. You can’t trace this back to any single formational event or time but Protestantism was certainly one step towards the separation of the natural and supernatural worlds, and then the English Civil War was another. One religious, the other political. The fact that both of these things may have had positive elements to them is beside the point. The basic truth is that they opened up a gap between the spiritual and the material which, once opened, could be expanded exponentially until the point was reached at which the spiritual was so far removed it no longer existed in any real sense and could just be denied reality. That is now.
This Week in Arts & Letters
Chris Gale has more Sydney for our Saturday Sonnet, and another Ann Locke for Sunday. And in a moment of levity, The Aunteater.
At City Journal, Theodore Dalrymple has some commentary on a recent Dangerous Development in Cape Town; one that certainly did not escape our notice.
Glenn Arbery at the Imaginative Conservative has some well-intentioned ideas on Remaking the Culture. But culture is downstream of power; in fact, it’s almost like a waterfall. Which is much more fitting for the timeframe we’re working with.
John Fitzgerald at Albion Awakening introduces us to Aidan Hart, modern iconographer.
Finally, Harper takes an in-depth look at the maritime art of Kenneth Denton Shoesmith. Beautiful.
This Week in the Outer Left
Jennifer Schaffer has a review of three books with interchangeable plots up at The Baffler. I do not recall the titles or the authors as I write this up, because the review is not the point, the closing paragraphs are the point, so I will quote them at length.
My own coming of age took a similar form to these characters’. I had just turned twenty, he was thirty-one. At the time, I was in a long-term relationship with an undergraduate engineer so straightforward in his needs that I spent days of my life tracing the pattern of his personality, over and over, feeling for the snag. I was, indisputably, the dominant force between us: if I hadn’t been, our days would have consisted of video games, takeout, and watching viral clips in bed. The relationship offered me these genuinely simple pleasures, which is what I needed, or thought I needed, at the time.
Then I met a man, let’s call him Jack, and at first it felt like going from Go Fish to high-stakes poker. Jack was observant and condescending, domineering and erudite. We met in a writing group, and he read my work with an acuity it had never been read with before. So much of our relationship consisted of Jack describing me to myself: the way I held a wine glass, the way I wrote, the way my body felt, the way I looked while I was reading. Over time, it grew clear to me that Jack—and maybe all the grown-up boys I had known, or would know—derived much of his power from my willingness to listen, to absorb, to watch, to reflect back to him what he told me he was seeing. If my energy and my attention, my enthusiasm and my youth, were deep wells from which men drew their power, what would I be left with in due course? Jack wanted to a be a professor, and often made me into his classroom of one, but what I learned from him—so central to who I am now—never came from his lessons. The payout is never enough.
If I didn’t know otherwise, I would swear this was an illustrative story made up by Heartiste. It’s just too perfect, it’s all here: alpha fux, beta bux, alpha widowhood, the hamster.
And, in somewhat more serious fare, Yasha Levina covers the Cambridge Analytica con for The Baffler. The con of the title does not refer to any actions taken by Cambridge Analytica, but rather refers to the mainstream coverage thereof. Levine fundamentally gets it right that there is no meaningful difference between Cambridge Analytica and the daily operations of Facebook, Google, and similar platforms. He gets it wrong in calling for them to be subject to “democratic oversight”, which just means rendering them safe for leftism and inherently hostile to the right. However, on the whole, this one is a definite RTWT, and a bit of a long one at that, so I’m going to just leave you with this one nugget and say go read the rest.
The truth is that the internet has never been about egalitarianism or democracy.
This is the truth, but Levine takes it to be a valid criticism of the internet, rather than a significant point in its favor.
And our friend Craig Hickman returned this week from a hiatus to favor us with a new poem, for the darkness within…
We hope, come The Restoration, that only a few will need to be show-trialed and executed. Professional “Anti-racist” Time Wise is probably among those few.
This Week in Liberalism Besieged
For the second week in a row, the JQ got attention outside the Dissident Right, this time from Jordan Peterson. Unsurprisingly, Peterson concludes that the Alt-Right’s take on the JQ is nothing but a conspiracy theory and that Jewish success can be explained by high IQ alone. He then riffs off the JQ to argue against identity politics:
First, psychologically speaking: why do the reactionary conspiracy theorists even bother? This is a straightforward matter. If you’re misguided enough to play identity politics, whether on the left or the right, then you require a victim (in the right-wing case, European culture or some variant) and a perpetrator (Jews). Otherwise you can’t play the game.
There’s a kernel of truth here: Even when you actually are a victim, Victim Mindset is not Imperial Mindset—a lesson some dissidents would do well to remember. (Moldbug: “Whining is the act either of a slave, or a b*tch.”) But of course, it’s possible to have a non-PC but nuanced take on the JQ without playing identity politics; indeed, it’s possible to have such a take on the JQ without playing politics at all…
Another red-haired girl.
This week also found Peterson caught twice in the Cathedral’s crosshairs, despite his persistent efforts to punch right and thereby distance himself from racists and identitarians. The New York Review of Books accuses Peterson of “fascist mysticism”, while the Walrus accuses him of using his connections to the Kwakwaka’wakw people to deflect charges of racism. Peterson, who (unlike Elizabeth Warren) is not a “Fauxcoum”, did not like this.
Steven Pinker talks to Reason’s Nick Gillespie about Pope Francis, environmentalists, and unwarranted fear of economic regulations.
Jon Haidt and Sean Stevens of Heterodox Academy argue that free speech on campus is starting to trend in the right direction. BTW, I noticed that HxA has up a fairly interesting (possibly even useful) Guide to Colleges.
Over at EconLog, David Henderson posts a back-and-forth of his with fellow economist Jack Tatom on our supposed “right to our bodies” in view of the recent student walkouts. He also briefly discusses the history of proposals for a guaranteed annual income in the US. Scott Sumner asks, “What if Trump wins the China IP dispute?”And in the wake of Trump’s trade war, Pierre Lemieux explains whom he thinks protectionist measures hurt.
At Quillette, Jonny Anomaly contends that the Alt-Right and the Regressive Left are one and the same. (Stay tuned to find out whether “Regressive Leftists are the real identitarians!” works out better than “Democrats are the real racists!”) Gideon Scopes complains that American democracy isn’t working because the Left has turned it into an oligarchy—perhaps a clue that democratic systems have serious design flaws. Finally, Alexander Blum suggests (somewhat out of left field) that Jordan Peterson’s ideas are compatible with Marxism.
This Week… Elsewhere
PA produces an affecting montage on The Enemy Of England. Also he ranks The Five Best Geopolitical Events Of My Lifetime.
This week in 80-Proof Oinomancy, Ace considers when the problem is you and what to do about it: “I just don’t understand how you can smile with all those tears in your eyes…”. Feature video from Everclear is a must-listen. I suppose the problem is always you in some sense.
Arnold Kling notices a distinct odor in the March for Our Lives™ Brand protests: Not your 1960s protests. They were performance art then; they are performance art for the short bus today.
Al Fin takes note of some Russian Exports We Could Do Without—one in particular. Also: Why is Latin America So Violent?
Zach Kraine notes: “Left wing rebellion has become a capitalist commodity”. The red-revolution isn’t coming because… it’s already here. And like all revolutions, it was carried out by the bourgeoisie.
By way of Unorthodoxy: David Brooks “Speaking as a white male”. You can’t make this shit up.
Hapsburg Restorationist takes a very Catholic look into the question Is the De Facto Power Always Legitimate Authority?
This week in Zeroth Position, Insula Qui continues his treatise On Libertarianism and Statecraft: Part VI: Authority and Liberty. He makes the (somewhat strange) case that authoritarianism is perfectly compatible with libertarianism—indeed optimal. While this is good to know, the libertarian bit of the equation leaks out in ways that are not intelligible to garden variety authoritarians such as myself: “Whenever authorities refrain from coercing anyone, they are perfectly libertarian.” Is not the entire purpose of authority to coerce people? He brings up Moldbug’s ol’ favorite: Market governance. Now a government who works with, instead of against, market realities is bound to be more effective, just as a government who works with, and not against, gravity and meteorology will be. But that doesn’t mean there’s a free and open market for government. Neighbors Alice and Bob can’t “buy” different governments, for whoever resolves inevitable disputes between them will be the true government. So why not eliminate the middle-men in the first place? There’s only room for Alice’s government or Bob’s. And if Alice was the buyer, she should I think add the option of transferring all of Bob’s property over to her.
Welp, that’s all we had time for. Hope you got your fix of News you can Use. Special thanks to the excellent TWiR Staff: Egon Maistre, Burgess MacLear, Hans der Fiedler, and Aidan MacLear helped immensely in drawing this all together. David Grant was off this week, and assuredly his absence was felt. He should be back next week. Have a blessed Holy Week, everyone, and a Happy Easter! Keep on reactin! Til next week: NBS… Over and out!!
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