LIBERTY (MAYBE IT’S THE COFFEE) I was just going to sit and relax and listen to

LIBERTY (MAYBE IT’S THE COFFEE)

I was just going to sit and relax and listen to a book on tape today before designing this one feature that needs some of my attention.

And then one particular post just made me lose my patience.

Why the hell do I want to reform libertarianism?

Because I spent most of my life trying to solve the problem of CONFLICT. And I spent most of my early adulthood trying to find a language that would give aristocratic conservatives the ability to defend their ideas in ratio-scientific rather than purely moral and allegorical terms.

And then, by accident, in a speech by Hans Hoppe I saw that he had made necessary, not preferential arguments. I knew something was wrong. I intuited that something was wrong with his logic. And it bothered me. But the fact that he had found a path through democracy was enough of a starting point.

It has taken me twelve years from hearing that speech, to base his arguments on science rather than rationalism. And to correct libertarian arguments by returning them from the ghetto to the aristocracy where they came from.

The kernel of the solution to political conflict is in Hoppe’s work. It’s not right yet. His Argumentation is a DESCRIPTION not a CAUSE. But it allowed me to find the CAUSE and with that cause, explain all moral codes and how we can cooperate across them, rather than the need for a monopoly of moral codes that imposes one morality by political force upon others with different moral preferences.

Libertarians need not be so self impressed. Conservatives, without reason and science, are much more effective at politics that we are. And that is because they correctly understand human nature.

We have an INCORRECT (arguably semitic) assumption about human nature in our rothbardian arguments that is scientifically false, demonstrably undesirable, and demonstrably ineffective. The aristocratic west is the only high trust society in existence. And we accomplished that using the moral code of conservatives, not rothbardian libertarianism.

We were wrong on morality. The conservatives were right. Hoppe is right on institutions. But we must understand that we were wrong on morality and as such we are INSUFFICIENT in our institutional solutions.