Oct 14, 2021

Tom Woods: "Is society itself not in some way self-ordering?"

I'm suggesting that libertarians have a fresh new way to look at the world because we actually ask, "Do we need institution X, do we need institution Y, and if we do need these things, do they have to be provided the way they're tradionally provided?"  Could we not learn to interact with each other on a purely voluntary basis?  Is society itself not in some way self-ordering?  Incidentally, that's why I've taken a great interest in economics.  And I feel like just the field of economics, when you understand it right, shows you something important about how society is self-ordering.  It shows you something about how social cooperation occurs spontaneously.  That's not what we're taught.  The model of society that we learn in school is that somebody with a bullhorn has to be barking out orders and then everybody obeys.  I think they're may be a more attractive way for arranging society.

~ Tom Woods, "Tom Woods: The Making of an Anti-War Libertarian," Reason TV, 2:40 mark, October 10, 2018



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