LIBERTY FOR SMART PEOPLE The Dark Enlightenment is the next step in a libertaria

LIBERTY FOR SMART PEOPLE

The Dark Enlightenment is the next step in a libertarian’s intellectual development. It’s where we end up when we see that man does not act as homo-economicus except in a rothbardian dream world.

It took thirty years to abandon rothbard’s ethics of the anarchic ghetto and to turn our attention back to aristocratic monarchy. That was thirty years too long.

But without rothbard’s interesting combination of errors and insights, aristocracy might have continued to be lost in conservative religio-moral pseudo-intellectual nonsense-speak.

The Dark Enlightenment embraces the natural sciences, rather than rejecting them and relying on the absurd proposition of the a priori.

But the Dark Enlightenment is not as philosophically rigorous – which is to be expected for a movement started just a few years ago.

Time to add the philosophical rigor of libertarianism (and marxism) to the Dark Enlightenment.

Time to construct liberty for smart people.