Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Dr. David Starkey - Uncut: Assaults on Brexit, British Identity & History I So What You're Saying Is" video.

  1. So you're bringing it back to Alfred the Great and his self-supporting and -defending borough idea, with the borough more or less autonomous AND an organizing zone/principle for the raising of levies for the whole of Wessex (and eventually England). That might be Britain's greatest strength, and I love how David Starkey reminds us of how much of that comes from Germanic invaders, where the King wasn't anointed by God, so much as first among equals, by MERIT, and still answerable to the tribe. The way it was explained to me w.r.t. the Native American tribes was that the Chief was the guy everybody listened to, until they didn't. He was Chief by his potency, wisdom and social skills. Personally, I think we're really close to the point where there's a global order along those lines. Not from the top down, but across political boundaries and vast distances, who generally believe in non-force principle: We don't have to kill each other in order to survive. We are not goat herders faced with nothing but dry grass. We can feed ourselves right where we are with permaculture farming in and around every community. The only thing we need centralized is the backbone that lets us share ideas with one another, eat better, sleep better, live better.
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  2. LOL! Mills. But seriously. Mises sez that it was the fact of small, largely autonomous units that led to ideas like property rights, free trade, and tolerance. A state of relative anarchy, in which no one group or state has control of HUGE territories. The bigger the state, the more dangerous. The U.S. is like that. But to the extent they can devolve powers to the state level and the states to the local and the local to the clans and the clans to the families, we grope towards that "Nobody is telling EVERYBODY what to do" state that is probably closest to utopia as we'll ever get. But it's almost the opposite of top-down globalism. More of a global state of empowerment of individuals that make national boundaries kind of silly. A lot of globalists probably see a piece of it, but they're utterly wrong-headed in how they go about it, choosing to use force as the shortest path, rather than LETTING it happen, as the surest path.
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  3. Liked and shared. Now to listen to the video.
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  4. From the man who brought me MONARCHY.
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