-- On 3 May 2003 at 9:49, John Kelsey wrote:
Maybe the direction of technology will ultimately lead to the collapse of the nation state and the rise of David Friedman style anarchocapitalist protection agencies to replace it (good luck solving the military defense problem!)
Against the Soviet Union in its prime, or against the Nazi commie alliance, an anarcho capitalist america would have been in deep trouble, if it had the same level of technology as the actually existent america had back then. Against current enemies, not a problem. Observe the big role and great effectiveness of "special forces" (small numbers of high quality espionage style forces). An anarcho capitalist america, while it would have trouble fielding big armies, would probably do special forces operations considerably better than big government bureacracies do. Current enemies are not much, because americans have a technological lead. Americans have a technological lead because america is the close to the most capitalist country in the world, and it is the most capitalist large country. An anarcho capitalist America would in time have an even greater technological lead. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG 9kQD8V66S+pVcKVRtUTYuDE0WULh6Xn1tbd021Hm 4W9L1mnKxVqx/QMuhjG/OVrV6Jsb7op/OGb86Jonc