THE PROBLEM OF SACRILIZATION by Bill Anderson A value system is a fundamental bu

THE PROBLEM OF SACRILIZATION

by Bill Anderson

A value system is a fundamental building block of cooperation, it must be shared by all members of the cooperative group.

Religion = sacralized value system.

The US Constitution was an attempt to sacralize a value system integrated with a market system.

That experiment failed.

Conclusion: markets are incapable of maintaining a sacralized value system. Market systems are too easily subverted, thus the value system is easily subverted.

A “pope” is a king (sheriff) whose job is to defend a sacralized value system. The shared and sacralized value system is a necessary but insufficient precondition for civilization, and markets are a necessary but insufficient precondition of western civilization.

A king is a sheriff whose job is to defend the extended family, known as the nation, and their collective assets (commons).

Merchant, King, Pope.

Western civilization depends on the Pope and the King cooperating to defend the commons, while allowing the Merchant to produce unmolested, except where his production consumes the shared value system or the nation’s commons.

The Merchant must never be freed, he must always be a servant. He must be chained to the Family and to God.

There can be no “market government”, where the Merchant is King.