Dec 23, 2019, 8:18 PM
Sovereignty demands Reciprocity, where demand for Reciprocity includes all demonstrated interests, whether bodily, family, physical, normative, traditional, informational, or the civic and political institutions that defend them.
Westerners produce commons that other people cannot produce, and we do by NOT DOING evil: lying, misleading, cheating, stealing, free riding, corruption, as much as what we DO: Sovereignty, Reciprocity, Truth, Duty, Heroism.
So economists (all of whom are leftists) only measure individual consumer goods, not the production of commons: truth, honesty, integrity, contract, quality, civility, responsibility – which is what makes western civilization unique.
What is the price of the norm of truth before face? What is the price of commons before self? What is the price of quiet public places, parks and forests without fear, lockless doors, the intergenerational nuclear family, and family income provided by only one spouse? …
… our entrepreneurship, our technology, our medicine? That price is self-denial, the most important of which is soft eugenics: limiting reproduction to that which one can support while producing offspring likewise capable of support without parasitism upon others.