This guy's crazy, plain and simple. Intelligent, no doubt, but crazy.
He uses all these obscure examples chopping against HIS view of a mini-state while assuming anarchy will work perfectly. I dont need to hear about cows. Now I don't know if I want a cheeseburger or to read Watership Down.
He is the perfect example of why there should be a drop out, opt out policy. Go, dude. Take off, 'eh? Create a gulch somewhere and enjoy it because all this rambling nonsense goes absolutely nowhere.
He has yet to show one example of theory in motion supporting his vision. He seems like he knows what is bad, but can't begin to show how his concept of anarchy would prevail.
I expected to hear some examples of anarchy applied to reality, how it would work. I know the state is bad.
"How anarchism works is irrelevant" he just said. Thats not the way to drive the bus. "Its nobodys business how anarchy in society works".
Jesus christ. I can't believe he actually said that.
I think I'd like to speak to this guy in person. Does he attend NH functions? PorcFest or any of that?
Oh! Isn't this the guy who is in favor of DRO's?
I think I remember MobileDigit chastizing me over Moleneux's (sp) DRO theories.
I think I've found a new hobby. I want more. I'll be polite, I'm interested. He just personally invited me at the end of this podcast to engage.
Libertarian anarchy is voluntary government and it already exists. It's commonly called the free market. To whatever extent that there is freedom to exchange goods, services and ideas and that people are free to organize into businesses and non-profits, then to that extent, you have the principle of market anarchism in action.
Whenever someone proposes that some function of the State be privatized, e.g., food distribution, hundreds of objections will be raised against this idea, such as monopolization, price gouging, how will the poor pay for their food, cutthroat competition, who will service small markets, the inefficiency of having truck A sending company A's bread from the east coast to the west coast passing by company B's truck that's sending bread from the west coast to the east coast and how this waste of time and resources can be overcome by central planning.
The central planners fail to understand the importance of the incentives that are created by the free market are what cause the emergence of a spontaneous and flexible order though the seemingly chaotic billions of decisions of millions of people.
This is what is meant by leaving it to the market to figure out a solution. This is why people living in a free market have inexpensive, high quality food and great variety to choose from, while people living under central planning are fortunate if the can get on an hours long bread line to keep from outright starvation.
These same arguments, which amount to saying, "How the market works is irrelevant.", can be applied to all potential State functions.