first pages are the hardest thing to write….. The distributed dictatorship of

first pages are the hardest thing to write…..

The distributed dictatorship of the sovereign.

Humans are domesticatable animals like any other. We chant to one another that each man is valuable only so that we investigate the possibility of each rather than throw out the potential of a new-cooperator with the bathwater. And we continue the chant lest we also be discarded by those who might likewise judge us too quickly. But it is not true that all men’s lives are precious. It is not true that men’s lives are of value. It’s only that as long as they are not harmful, we may assume his life might be of value until he demonstrates he is harmful, or not valuable. But even this assumption rests only on the assumption that his cost in the interim is tolerable, or the cost of another is more tolerable.

The Reciprocity Equilibrium (lowest common denominator)

The wild animal man.

The prisoner-slave

The indentured slave

The potential human.

The human in training

The human.

The potential aristocracy.

The Aristocracy.

Market for survival (respect life and property)

Market for consumption (goods, svcs, information)

Market for reproduction (marriage)

Market for dispute resolution (the law – ind. judiciary)

Market for membership (freedom. defense of life, prop, comm.)

Market for commons (houses of govt for trades between the classes)

Market for rule (judge of last resort) (monarchs)

Market for polities (small states)

Market for Conflict (war)