This Dark Enlightenment crap is pretty much exactly the *opposite* of what I'm hoping for.
But if Trump, or his backers like Thiel, have any long-term game plan, maybe this is it. Authoritarian city-states run by rich oligarchs? And maybe some large empires like Russia? Wikipedia writes:
"Yarvin in "A Formalist Manifesto" advocates for a form of neocameralism in which small, authoritarian "gov-corps" coexist and compete with each other, an idea anticipated by Hans Herman-Hoppe. He claims freedom under the system would be guaranteed by the ability to "vote with your feet", whereby residents could leave for another gov-corp if they felt it would provide a higher quality of life, thus forcing competition. Nick Land reiterates this with the political idea "No Voice, Free Exit", taken from Albert Hirschman's ideas of voice being democratic and exit being departure to another society:
"If gov-corp doesn’t deliver acceptable value for its taxes (sovereign rent), [citizens] can notify its customer service function, and if necessary take their custom elsewhere. Gov-corp would concentrate upon running an efficient, attractive, vital, clean, and secure country, of a kind that is able to draw customers."
But in history authoritarian city-states haven't always make it easy for people to enter or leave. Remember, Bach was jailed by the Duke of Saxe-Weimar for trying to leave town for a different job.
(3/3)
https://theconversation.com/worthy-of-a-bond-villain-the-bizarre-history-of-libertarian-attempts-to-create-independent-cities-173903
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