The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

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Afflicted by oesophageal cancer, he became seriously ill just before Christmas of 2012, and died in London on 29 December at the age of 84. States generally do not recognize individual sovereignty of any natural persons, but only of states.

The fundamental axiom of libertarian theory is that each person must be a self-owner, and that no one has the right to interfere with such self-ownership. My instincts, well-honed after years of meeting strangers in public places who ‘want a word,’ said he was friend not foe. Just look at what the Conservative MP John Redwood wrote on Twitter yesterday, egging Boris Johnson to no deal: “Time for the government to set out how we will use all the freedoms we win if we just leave the EU without a new legal lock up. Citation (p150) "any physical force used against another to keep him from homesteading is an act of criminal assault against him, and aggression may not be used to establish a homestead right (just as one would-be homesteader may not use force to prevent someone else from getting to a piece of land first). The libertarian right always saw Brexit as part of their journey to a low-tax, low-regulation and low-transparency UK.It’s the idea that Lord William Rees-Mogg was just engaging in a disinterested, rational exercise of “prophesy-making”, putting aside “what do I WANT to happen”, and just thinking about “what I think WILL happen”. Fake news, echo chambers, the weaponisation of information, the turning against elites – they foretell it all. Information technology exposes people working in formerly protected service sectors to foreign competition.

One is obligated not to create a zygote by an pure (physical) interference action or perform the parental duty which is an obligation resulting from negative sovereignty by assuming an implicit law on the zygote. It really does help you understand why the political Right fought so hard for Brexit, and why they are relishing the chaos it has unleashed. The good news is that politicians will no more be able to dominate, suppress and regulate the greater part of commerce in this new realm than the legislators of the ancient Greek city-states could have trimmed the beard of Zeus. Citation: "In the same vein, the fact of self-ownership is a praxeological precondition of argumentation.

To Rees-Mogg and the radical right it is a source of opportunity, the chance for the Sovereign Individual to rise above tedious constraints lesser mortals take for granted – tax, regulation, government, even politics and democracy itself. We expect to see a significant multiplication of sovereign entities, as scores of enclaves and jurisdictions more akin to city-states emerge from the rubble of nations. Not quite as long as Dominic Cummings’ blogs, and hopefully more intelligible, but long nonetheless. We all have those conversations we are even avoiding or which usually get into an emotional debate with hurt feelings. There will, it is admitted, be ‘left-behinds,’ and they will become ‘increasingly jingoistic and unpleasant’ as the impact of information technology grows.