I think the problem was the agricultural revolution. Mankind isn’t built for the permanent settlements created by farming. In purely tribal days, the political class could easily be neutralized, by killing them or walking away from them, but permanent settlement made that more difficult. While the productive class is being productive, the political class is consolidating power. Consolidation of power makes them the tribal elite and man’s genetic and unchangeable tribalism allows the political class to exploit the productive class. There is no way out of that.

I’ve come to believe that a libertarian political order isn’t possible. Libertarianism is the way that the productive class deals with each other, naturally. The libertarian social order already exists and functions at a high level. The political order, however, will always be dominated by pathological personalities who will be able to manipulate the general public’s genetic tribalism for their own gain.

Those of us who call ourselves libertarians have certain genetic characteristics like a weak tribal survival instinct, logicality, curiosity and a high value for knowledge. If people don’t have those characteristics, they won’t be able to recognize libertarianism even though it’s clearly correct and they live their own lives by it. They will believe what they perceive the tribal elite want them to believe and they can’t do anything else. It’s literally in their DNA to do so.

The question for me has become whether or not I should be a knowing victim of the political class in a dying empire, or should I get whatever I can from the government and help other libertarians do the same? Logically assess the situation at hand and figure out how to profit from it? The real difference between us and the normies is that we can see and, therefore, try to avoid our own political victimization. So should we do it?

I haven’t made up my mind., however, for the reasons described above, I don’t think anything can be done about tribally motivated social unrest and the political scams. As I’ve said before, the scams are how the political class transfers power and wealth from the productive class and that’s as permanent as modern settlements. You’re either going to get on board with the scams or be a victim of them.

That’s something we’re all going to have to figure out according to our own moral codes.