[extropy-chat] Re: Authenticity, extropy, libertarianism, and history

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Erik Starck <es at popido.com> wrote:

> 
> I believe firmly in minimal state intervention in peoples lifes, but
> I suggest a reading of Hernando de Sotos "The Mystery of Capital" if
> you think that complete anarchy is the way to go. At the very least
> we need property laws, which in turn implies a police and a court.
> Don't know what that makes me.
> 
> More interesting to discuss is perhaps the role of the national state
> in an ever more globalised world. In "One World", Peter Singer puts
> forth the following:
>
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0300103050/ref=sib_dp_bod_toc/104-5818349-0666300?%5Fencoding=UTF8&p=S007#reader-link
> "One Atmosphere. One Economy. One Law. One Community." 
> 
> Given this view of the world, do we really need the national states?
> 
> If we don't, then what should be in their place?

I happen to like the concept of the Franchise Organised Quasi-National
Entity from the Stephenson novels Snow Crash and Diamond Age. The
Common Economic Protocol is the whole of the law.


Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
Blog: http://intlib.blogspot.com

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around 
http://mail.yahoo.com