Do we ever get out of anarchy?

[Libertarian666]

http://mises.org/journals/jls/22_1/22_1_1.pdf

Spoiler alert:
No

[Pointedstick]

Thanks Libertarian666! This looks great, can't wait to read it. Looks like it supports my "we never left the law of the jungle and we never will" hypothesis.

[Mountaineer]

Thanks Libertarian666,

Interesting article.  One of my take-aways was the importance of "positive" character attributes for those whom we put in public office as illustrated by this statement about the Venetian aristocracy:

"The rules of debate, especially in the Senate, which forbid insult and slander, reprove emotionalism and demagoguery, and seek—successfully in the event—to keep discussion low-key, practical, and consensual, are another manifestation of their attitudes. In their great crises this Venetian aristocracy behaved like Roman senators and magistrates in their golden days during the Hannibalistic wars. They exhibited a respect for the mos maiorum, the laws of the Republic, and then exhibited what one can only call, really, a sense of state."

... Mountaineer

[WildAboutHarry]

[quote=Pointedstick]Thanks Libertarian666! This looks great, can't wait to read it. [/quote]

Sober, I hope

[Pointedstick]

Thanks Libertarian666! This looks great, can't wait to read it.

Sober, I hope

Didn't get a chance to try any alcoholic experiments this weekend.