Listening to the @jmrphy chat on Neoabsolutism helped me recognize (again) what the fundamental axiom of ontological illiberalism is. ...
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... The assumption that anarchic competition tends inevitably to full monopoly is absolutely basic to a huge range of statist ideologies. ...
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... I find it hard to understand how this axiom got so deeply established, given that basic biological reality so dramatically disqualifies it. ...
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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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... War is God, and it will not long tolerate a steward.
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The world tolerates a steward for an appreciable amount of time and the only way to break a monopoly is to create a new one
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Monopolies, whether political or economic, are never anywhere close to as strong as people think. ...
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... In fact, the systematic tendency to over-rate monopolies of both kinds is itself a symptom of their fundamental fragility. They breed antagonism faster than they strengthen themselves.
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and even their internal functioning already betrays fragmentation.
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