"people who have no moral issue with being coercive" usually gang up on each other, eventually.
Such behavior creates feedback loops best observed from a safe distance.
Point I'm trying to get at is that anarchy ignores Pareto as much as Marxism. Sometimes an evil person wins the IQ lottery and individuals alone are not powerful enough to fight them.
Truth.
Evil -often- wins the IQ lottery.
Mensa as an organization demonstrates this beyond question.
Mensa is mostly joined by people who want to inflict rules upon others.
Yeah I think the ivory tower is a dangerous place. Smart ppl are always faced with the temptation to get their ego stroked. This gives even smarter and eviler ppl an attack vector.
Fear is likely a significant factor here as well. Intelligence and testosterone (physical prowess) are inverse in an individual, on average.
The key is not power to fight.
The solution consists of too many variables for here.
But one specific clue is to examine innate weaknesses of Evil.
Censorship, Hatred. Hierarchy
Like for sure it's true that all monopolies eventually fail. But what if the current matrix I'm trapped in isn't doomed for another 300 years. It doesn't help me move forward in life.
First, no matter how strong the matrix or prison cell, you are only truly trapped if you believe you are. Use the trivium and quadrivium, the liberal arts, to find your way out
Is Ross Ulbricht trapped? Did he not use the trivium and quadrivium hard enough? needed more swish and flick?
IDK, I'm tempted to think Adam Smith was wrong. Or at least not 100% right. That's why they say "the animating contest of Liberty". You don't get out the matrix if you don't want out.
