I started this whole movement by myself sitting at my desk in my living room in a Brownstone on St Botolph Street in Boston in about 1990. Originally I thought I’d work on reforming economics. But by around 2010 I understood as did Hayek that the problem was in the Law. I went public with it when I retired from the CEO position in the Tech sector in about 2012 when I founded the Propertarian Institute. Sometime after 2019 we shifted to the Natural Law institute to reflect the emphasis on the law, and that we had moved well past philosophy at that point. By fall of 2021 we had begun restating the work as science, constructing it from the first principles of physics upward – we found it was more understandable and accessible.
Over the past few years some of our staff has developed into rather sophisticated thinkers in their own right, either mastering the work, or applying the method, the science, the logics and the laws to their target population and audience. It’s just turned out that each of us specializes a bit in the individual, the family, social orders, politics, law, or even intellectual warfare with the enemy.
Today, we’re working on fixing some text together and the quality of thought coming out of that team is just extraordinary.
And I can’t quite explain how rewarding that is, or how fulfilling it is, or how inspiring it is, that if you work at a very hard problem long enough, and manage to find a group of profoundly moral and smart people, that you can produce great things, with great potential for mankind.
Hugs all.
CD
(BTW: Brownstone comes from Portland CT, which is across the river from Middletown CT (middle of the CT river valley). The quarry, next to the river, flooded and has been shut down for decades, and it now has a sort of sports amusement center in it.)