It's completely coherent to oppose a particular person being in a position of authority (based on performance, etc) or to think a particular non-sovereign position should be abolished; it makes no sense to oppose authority as such or to try to abolish sovereign authority.
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Replying to @mr_scientism @Dick71224996 and
in this sense, why would authority be a merely human affair?
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @mr_scientism and
Because we have no evidence of non-humans telling humans what to do.
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Replying to @Outsideness @cyborg_nomade and
You realize the production of commodities, legal systems, property norms and market regulations require command hierarchies to function right? Without these processes, how could these 'price signals' become intelligible?
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Replying to @Dick71224996 @cyborg_nomade and
The Scottish Enlightenment explained all of this a lot better than you guys do.
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Replying to @Outsideness @Dick71224996 and
"Much of the opposition to a system of freedom under general laws arises from the inability to conceive of an effective co-ordination of human activities without deliberate organization by a commanding intelligence." -- Hayek on Neoabsolutismhttps://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/LtrLbrty/bryTSO.html …
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Replying to @Outsideness @cyborg_nomade and
This doesn't answer my question. Corporations, legal systems and regulatory bureaucracies all have supreme commanders with final discretionary authority. Without the commands issued by these authorities, societies wouldn't be able to coordinate their behaviour within markets.
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Replying to @Dick71224996 @cyborg_nomade and
All those "commanders" are executive appointments, allotted functions within a broader social process. Sovereignty resides at the level of the spontaneous outcome, where success and failure are decided.
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Replying to @Outsideness @Dick71224996 and
... Neoabsolutism is strictly analogous to homunculus theorizing. It thinks it solves a question of social coordination by drawing in a little coordinator guy.
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... The fact that markets clear without a market-clearing manager is the single greatest insight in the history of political economy and social science, and you guys determinedly ignore it.
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