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Cordial and Sanguine, Part 39: When Spontaneous Orders Attack, Part 2
The second installment of the C4SS Mutual Exchange on Spontaneous Order continues with my contribution, Invisible Hands and Incantations: The Mystification of State Power.
Summary: while spontaneous-order mechanisms are often invoked as a benign alternative to state power, there are reasons for thinking that state power itself depends for its maintenance on spontaneous-order mechanisms – mechanisms that function primarily to render the oppressive nature of the state invisible.
Cordial and Sanguine, Part 38: Your Character, Sire, Is a Constitution of Liberty
Jesse Walker has a nice discussion of the Farrant/McPhail/Berger paper on Hayek and Pinochet.
Tertium Datur
So what moral defect and/or lack of political imagination do these two songs (or the imagined narrators thereof) have in common?
The nations not so blest as thee
must in their turns to tyrants fall
while thou shalt flourish great and free,
the dread and envy of them all:
Rule, Britannia! Britannia rule the waves:
Britons never, never, never shall be slaves.
So I’m picking ’em up and I’m laying ’em down
I believe he’s going to work me into the ground
I pull to the left, I heave to the right
I ought to kill him but it wouldn’t be right
’cause I’m working for the man
I’m working for the man ….
So I slave all day without much pay
’cause I’m just biding my time
’cause the company and the daughter you see
they’re both going to be all mine
yeah, I’m going to be the man
I’m going to be the man ….
Cordial and Sanguine, Part 35: Paying the Cost to Have a Boss
My latest BHL piece: Libertarianism Means Worker Empowerment.
Cordial and Sanguine, Part 34: Blood, Sweatshops, and Tears
My latest BHL piece: Why Libertarians Should Oppose Sweatshops.