EZFKA – because bigger is better

Came across an interesting tweet that sent me down a rabbit hole of historical facts, that I found ultimately validating towards some of my views on culture, economics and the malaise the west finds itself today and where these values originate.

It’s not that there is nothing to be learned from the Moses-Rothbardian Jewish wing, but its lacking the ethics that make high trust civilization possible – and that is why there aren’t and never will be anarchy capitalist states or any equivalent.

https://twitter.com/curtdoolittle/status/1700279720296808689

To unpack this statement and to why it called out to me I had to revisit some historical economists work and what they were famous for, in particular Ludwig von Mises and Murry Rothbard.

Mises is perhaps most famous, if there is anyone more responsible for the economic and political system we now live under, and which I often decry, it is Ludwig von Mises. Today our Govt’s political and economic decision making is increasingly separated from our societies underlying cultural and social values, and instead are agnostically set by ‘the market’.

Mises’s main thesis was that “the nature of the price system under capitalism and describes how individual subjective values are translated into the objective information necessary for rational allocation of resources in society.”

Basically this means that only the ‘hidden information’ in consumer demand and supply through price action, could lead to an efficient and purposeful allocation of state resources – by having a bureaucrat involve themselves in the decision making would inevitably leave to a more inefficient outcome.

That is why the Federal Govt chooses to ‘solve’ Australia’s housing problem through the provision of incentives through the private sector and taxation, like Albo’s terrible build policy, rather than directly involve itself in the most obvious solution – become involved by directly building more houses.

Murray Rothbard went even further with his development of Anarcho-capitalism, where he combined the laissez-fair economics of Mises with the absolutist views of human rights and the rejection of the state. This is the economic foundation and justification of ‘self over society’ and is probably the most accurate description of Western economies.

Basically Rothbard took Mises statement that only the market can interpret the hidden information in price action to determine the most efficient allocation of resources, and went even further by saying any other influence eg cultural proclivities, would also produce lower optimal outcomes. Together these ideas divorced the link between cultural values and economic decision making. Now the only model that can be used is ‘the efficient market’.

So even something as simple as addressing declining population rates in the West, which could have previously been addressed by say making really impactful social and taxation incentives to actually have children, is now impossible. The Govt and social policy must be stripped of all power to do so – because to do so would lead to sub optimal outcomes…. from an individual perspective, even though the benefit to the society in terms of being more capable of perpetuating itself is obvious.

Using my model of society as an Egregore, or a ‘God’ that makes our lives possible, the impact of these economic theories essentially strip our Egregore or society of its ability to project itself and its values forward into the future. These economic theories are essentially terminator meme’s that do incredible harm to societies long term interest – ergo they are evil.

But what both Mises and Rothbard dismiss as bias or inefficiency, is actually the very thing that produces the ‘social capital’ that made Western societies so very productive. Collectively meeting societies needs through the inefficient allocation towards the state, was one of the very things that produced the high trust societies that are now being white anted by these neoliberal policies The resulting collapse in what was once high trust societies…. is evidence of the original quote that caught my eye

The widespread adoption of these notions in terms of economic acceptance, as created an overton window of sorts, an economic and social straight jacket where the solutions to any problem, can only be drawn from a small range of possible choices – despite a much larger selection of feasible choices being available.

That these theories have emerged or been drawn from Jewish culture, which is a culture whose primary purpose was to project their own values forward, at all times, in competition against any distinct culture or society that they may have found themselves in, is perhaps not very surprising. Jewish culture, as a disporia, will never provide the leadership for the sort of social capital to emerge that civilization relies upon. It can only swoop in and repoint it away from the collective majority to the individual under the guise of ‘rights’.

It is a good example of why philosopher’s of the past, like Martin Luther, warned against allowing another people and culture’s thought leadership to our own.