The spontaneous ordering of individuals is always a hierarchy with the strongest oppressing the rest to the largest extent possible in any society.
“When left to their own devices rather than being managed by some centralized planning agency, the effect of people’s efforts can increase exponentially.”
This is never true in any civilization where there isn’t a strong central government protecting those individuals from having the fruits of their efforts immediately stolen. That’s why the vast majority of technological achievements have occurred under the umbrella of a strong government, usually either a world power or in the shadow of a world power. It’s one of the reasons that Africa and the New World were virtually devoid of technological progress since their kings lacked the technological ability to control (you would call oppress) the population to the extent necessary to make it safe to innovate.
I don’t know why this is always lost on you. The Renaissance didn’t happen until governments became powerful enough. The industrial revolution didn’t happen until governments became strong enough. Rome didn’t invent virtually everything we have in civil engineering until they became powerful enough. What you consider oppressive power is the only thing that made the modern age possible yet you constantly attack it.
~ Paul
Starchild
July 8 |
Roy,
Statists frame anarchy as this scary external “chaos” to be opposed at all costs. But in reality, life is naturally chaotic and anarchies are just the spontaneous ordering of individuals. This can include great evil and great good because society is comprised of humans with this dual nature.
When left to their own devices rather than being managed by some centralized planning agency, the effect of people’s efforts can increase exponentially. This freedom is how the greatest human accomplishments are achieved, and is how all life progressed to its current levels of evolution before government.
By packaging “anarchy” as this alien force that undermines human society, statists are essentially refusing to allow the baby to have a bath, rejecting the great good that freedom can bring. We need that freedom to solve the many great problems society faces.
Love & Liberty,
((( starchild )))
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On Friday, July 7, 2023 at 06:06:40 PM PDT, Starchild via LPSF Forum noreply@forum.lpsf.org wrote: