“CURT: Is Hobbes’ assessment of man the closest to Propertarianism?”— I think

—“CURT: Is Hobbes’ assessment of man the closest to Propertarianism?”—

I think that we are sort of between Hobbes and Locke, with a Hobbesian view of mankind but a Locke/Smith solution. I think Hobbes could not imagine institutional solutions and between Lock,Smith, and Jefferson, they tried to imagine and create them.

Unfortunately the constitution was written as a rational prose that was the best of its time. But today we know how to strictly construct a constitution with nearly axiomatic precision that forces original intent, and prevents the judiciary from rule, in ways that the founders and their philosophers could not have imagined.

Unfortunately, Hobbes was right about the need for monarchy (as Hoppe has illustrated convincingly). The government may function as an insurer of last resort, and the court as a law of last resort, but there is no synthesis in an individual with a time horizon of millennia to lay veto upon those incremental errors that creep through the social, intellectual, legal, process. Our constitution was destroyed not by a deliberate attack but by violating it after the civil war over western expansion, and then incrementally killing it by a thousand cuts with full and malicious intent by the socialists – the New Church.