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Culture War Roundup for the week of September 4, 2023

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Regarding the anarchist responses to the topic, the only coherent proposals I've ever encountered are from David Friedman and others on the anarcho-capitalist side (a variant thoroughly detested by left-wing anarchist thinkers who think it's an affront even to consider it "real" anarchism). Friedman's response is essentially a cyberpunk future with competing private companies offering insurance, security, and arbitration in one package. Friedman's proposal is unusually thoughtful and coherent (the bar is low) and yet still remains largely a thought exercise reliant on some generous game theory assumptions. Who knows if it will or can ever work.

Honestly, if I can get a community I trusted to go with me I’d consider moving to a society founded in Tierra incognita to try running off those principles.

And that seems like the crux of the matter- anarchocapitalism is, for groups of functional red tribers with community ties, probably not that bad and likely cheaper than a conventional government. For lumpenproles it’s almost certainly a terrible deal, and that’s almost exactly the opposite of what left wing anarchists want- which in practice is basically a society that benefits the lumpenproles at the expense of red tribers with community ties.

This also doesn’t seem like a society that runs off of David-Friedman-Esque principles in practice, either, except for the cartoonishly wealthy, so I doubt this is likely to be a paradise for the people who actually propose it either.