A FRIENDLY NOTICE TO RECENT FB FRIENDS Please understand what I do. I write poli

A FRIENDLY NOTICE TO RECENT FB FRIENDS

Please understand what I do. I write political philosophy. Conservative Libertarian political philosophy. This is not a game. It is not recreation. It is what I do. And I consider it the most important thing that I can do.

Facebook is a scratch-pad. A notebook where I try ideas that I’m currently thinking about. And It’s how I keep in touch with the other people who do the same. An argument is a philosophical proposition structured in statements. You can think of them as math problems of a sort. Sometimes, you have to work those statements out. Just like you work out math problems. I don’t know sometimes how those arguments will work out until I make them. FB is a place where I can make them and where, if I make some big mistake, someone will point it out to me. Most of the time I’m making similar arguments but trying to make them more simple and easier to understand. I even succeed at it sometimes. 🙂

I belong to organizations that are commonly called ‘think tanks’ that conduct a research program called “Anarcho Capitalism” in which we try to determine how to replace the monopoly we call the state and its bureaucratic government with institutions that are subject to competition and therefore less subject to systemic corruption. This is a noble cause. I am proud of my contributions to this cause. I am proud of what we accomplished over the past century.

But you don’t have to agree with what I write, even on the odd chance you understand it. And I would never ask you to. It’s OK with me. I am not trying to create popular music or god forbid, run for office. I’m trying to find a solution to a pretty important problem that’s at least 2500 years old.

But I value your friendship in real life, even if you are uncomfortable with radical political philosophy, and radical conservative philosophy at that. So please try to understand that there are some of us who think that our current system of government is based on concepts that are no more sensible than the religious mysticism it replaced. And that there are a few of us out here playing the role of Galileo, Hume, Darwin and Weber in the hope of finding rational solution to the problem of human cooperation that we call ‘government’.

And so the only thing I’ll ask you to look at me and my work through that lens. Even if you think I’m wrong. Because I acknowledge that I might be. 🙂

(It’s just unlikely) 😉

Cheers