http://www.cato-unbound.org/2007/08/18/peter-t-leeson/anarchy-q-a/ Big Ideas for a Better World Fri, 5 Sep 2008 23:47:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.cato-unbound.org/2007/08/18/peter-t-leeson/anarchy-q-a/#comment-97878 A Second Hand Conjecture » News Brief, Sons and Daughters Edition Mon, 20 Aug 2007 23:50:26 +0000 http://www.cato-unbound.org/2007/08/18/peter-t-leeson/anarchy-q-a/#comment-97878 [...] Related: Foreign Policy sat down with some of the ambassadors from countries on its Failed States Index. It is interesting to hear, say, the representative from Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government, which cannot even control Mogadishu (to say nothing of the south and east of the country) eagerly deny his country is failed. There remains so little government there, one Peter Leeson (who defended the anarchy of pirates and Somalia as preferable to American representative democracy) has lept to its defense. Of course, Leeson also thinks that all of Somalia’s problems involve the exogenous imposition of government (neglecting, of course, of the horrendous human cost of the rise of the Islamic Courts under the anarchy he so clearly loves)… which tells me he clearly knows nothing of Somalia. That he also wants to abolish government in the U.S. in the belief that we would remain a happy, healthy, functioning society without any chaos or misery speaks volumes of his maturity as a thinker and his perception of human nature outside the great anarcho-capitalist essayists (and I can’t get over the fact that his professorship is bought/sponsored by BB&T). [...] […] Related: Foreign Policy sat down with some of the ambassadors from countries on its Failed States Index. It is interesting to hear, say, the representative from Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government, which cannot even control Mogadishu (to say nothing of the south and east of the country) eagerly deny his country is failed. There remains so little government there, one Peter Leeson (who defended the anarchy of pirates and Somalia as preferable to American representative democracy) has lept to its defense. Of course, Leeson also thinks that all of Somalia’s problems involve the exogenous imposition of government (neglecting, of course, of the horrendous human cost of the rise of the Islamic Courts under the anarchy he so clearly loves)… which tells me he clearly knows nothing of Somalia. That he also wants to abolish government in the U.S. in the belief that we would remain a happy, healthy, functioning society without any chaos or misery speaks volumes of his maturity as a thinker and his perception of human nature outside the great anarcho-capitalist essayists (and I can’t get over the fact that his professorship is bought/sponsored by BB&T). […]

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