THE PROPERTARIAN TAKE ON WESTERN HISTORY (important concept) Let’s note that in

THE PROPERTARIAN TAKE ON WESTERN HISTORY

(important concept)

Let’s note that in propertarianism we don’t have to resort to the terms ‘good’ or ‘bad’ just true (moral) and false (immoral). If you work from the via-positiva, you are stuck with the impossible presumption of knowing the ‘good’. If you work from via-negativa, we only need to know know the bad. If you work from sovereignty over property-in-toto we can empirically test the bad, leaving only the good to survive the ‘battle’. (The origins of trial by combat are rational in this context).

And if you grasp that the only method of cooperating under sovereignty over property-in-toto is productive, fully informed, warrantied, transfer limited to productive externalities, then no ‘commands’ in ‘legislation’ exist: only contracts for exchanges. In some exchanges we are seeking merely reciprocal burden of the costs of the production of commons. In others we are seeking behavior in exchange for financing. In others we are seeking behavior in exchange for subsidy.

What Roman empire and the church provided was an insurer that monarchies(rulers) adhered to natural law – at least in commerce. In a world where monarchs could be readily replaced by advantage-seeking-peers if they broke natural law, and were given license by the church – the militias (people) would not defend their kings. This limited monarchies to an incremental evolution of christian natural law monarchies, culminating in the late medieval period as enlightened monarchs.

We blew it. We took a very long time to develop government without a state (rule of law), in sufficient scale across our civilization, that sovereignty reserved for the aristocracy, was nearly achieved at scale. By ‘jumping the gun’ with the enlightenment, and seizing power from the aristocracy and church, the anglos and french let loose the undomesticated animal man in the lower classes to undo that sovereignty that the aristocracy had spent 3500 years developing through the incremental suppression of parasitism, producing the incremental domestication, and incremental rise of animal man through slave, serf, freeman, lesser nobility, nobility, and aristocracy. Because by achieving aristocracy one has transcended parasitic man to sovereign brotherhood of non-parasitic humans.

Curt Doolittle

The Propertarian Institute

Kiev, Ukraine