Listening to the @jmrphy chat on Neoabsolutism helped me recognize (again) what the fundamental axiom of ontological illiberalism is. ...
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... Nature is anarchic competition, and clearly doesn't tend to a monopolistic equilibrium. (Nor does world history or domestic economics, although the evidence is more open to controversy in those cases.) ...
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... "War is God" says only this (more elegantly, of course). ...
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I think what people question is whether there IS such a thing as anarchic competition in human societies. What actually appears in human societies is not anarchic competition, but games-- and if the dice are always loaded, rolling them more doesn't help.
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>basic biological reality so dramatically disqualifies it What, are we still mere dogs? No. All apex predators strive for monopolistic equilibrium. We are just the most successful. Of course, War is god. We built White Cathedrals and transcended biological reality long ago
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