Cities, Corporations, Libertarianism...

Cities, Corporation, Libertarianism...

Dear Gentles:  I apologize for not being able to find the right thread.

The gist/geist of what to which I'm replying goes something like the: 'Why do libertarians have a better view of corporation than cities?'

I'll reframe that to say: 'What is the best form of group formation?'

My answer, in short, is: Something like how Berman says cities were formed in @ the 12th C., as downstream from the Truce of God, by mutual oath-taking, greaterized by being n-dimensional rather than base on a territory..

Now how did this 'Truce of God' come about? Rosenstock in a lecture says that after Rome fell, tribes were kept from warring by natural boundaries (forests, e.g.). Then came hermits to the forests, then monks cleared the land, drained the swamps. then came peasants, but they made an easy target for  tribes. The monks had gained authority because of agricultural knowledge. (The Symphonic Method [Facebook Page] might perform this function in the future.)

The monks said 'No fighting during Lent.' That's prime time for 'when kings go out to war). Over the centuries came knights' armor (153 specialties) for the 10x traffic that the horse collar made, etc. And the 'no fighting...' became mutual oath-taking. The Church turned castle thugs to knights.

(Berman also maintains that the Hapsburgs made their money by building towns, and renting parts out. See Crichton's 'Timeline,' where this is in the background.  And dividends were still being paid centuries later as the heir helped get East Germans out through Hungary.)

So, future groups had best be oath-formed. Seasteading has problems, they still react to 'the state' (I'll sell my decas (my descendants will) and my Rattlesnake Island local post stamps. 'Two Hartman Minutes' wooden nickels are long gone).

Better 'For justice we must go to Don Corleone' than 'seasteading,' for he said 'that we cannot do. Your daughter is still alive.' Seasteaders react against 'the state,' we must create new and R. Buckminster Fuller and others say.

Opus 53 is attempting (so slowly!) to oath form small profitable productive enthusiastic groups as newnesses for the groups that are being destroyed--one of which, Creveld says in'The Rise and Decline of the State' is because it is failing of justice and sound money.

As myth-busters, one could read Hoppe and Rothbard. Mises' essay on the impossibility of calculation under socialism might be a wise read.

'Life, Inc.' claims that when traders threatened established kings/nobles, they used monopoly charters. Also, highways were built when auto companies needed them for their products to be used. (I'd do 'Stuart Wooden Nickel Highway' in honor of those who got together one Saturday AM in the early 20th C. to build a road to Dexter, 5 miles east. The non-aggression principle would be manifested. But that good would be against my great--the most important thing I can do at which I would be most difficult to replace--'Opus 53 : Conduct!')

Re: Rosenstock in 'Out of Revolution,' the man I'm reproducing is history conductor.

CONCLUSION: Be Christian libertarians, and form by oath, under the Trinitarian God of the Bible..

Love in King Jesus,

Charles Howard Hartman