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Tim and Joe define the concept of the State, and illustrate how the State initiates force at each scale of the built environment. This is the second of three episodes in the Foundations Series.

The Scales Framework returns for the tragic second act.

Use hashtag #ana002 to reference this episode in a tweet, shared post, or comment.

View full show notes at anarchitecturepodcast.com/ana002.

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Intro

How do you shape the land to foster your ideal vision of societal organization? One of early America’s premier architects shaped the built environment for the ideal of democracy by drawing the lines of the Continental Grid.

But these lines weren’t drawn with a pen; they were drawn with an eraser.

Discussion

Definition of a State

Initiation of Force

Consent and Legitimacy

The Violence Inherent in the System

The State or The Mafia?

Justifications for Government

Government Monopolies

Limits on government power

Realities of Democracy

Democracy as a tool for legitimacy

The Scales Framework goes to Washington

Would you initiate force in your house? Neighborhood? Canada?

House, Property and Neighborhood Scales

Outsourcing force to the state; Police as hired guns

Noise, social norms, ordinances, and zoning

Garden gnomes and the Virgin Mary in a Bathtub

Metropolis Scale

Taxes as aggression

Infrastructure, public schools, public transport

Does monopoly solve poverty?

Does voting solve monopoly?

Non-experts running services

A prerequisite for political office

Crowding out low cost private schools

Region Scale

Infrastructure as redistribution

Regulation and Standardization

Global Scale

International Standards and trade wars

Immigration

War and legitimacy

Problem solving in Detroit and Yemen

Aggression, radicalization, and blowback

The fundamental contradiction of government force

Conclusion

Links/Resources

The violence inherent in the system!

OK, so it was Harrison Ford

Speaking of Harrison Ford, he was clearly acting in self defense

Then there’s Clint Eastwood…

“It’s not like the cops are going to crash your party and start waving their guns around…”

Who’s being naive?

But private schools are only for the rich!

  continue reading

37 episodes

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Tim and Joe define the concept of the State, and illustrate how the State initiates force at each scale of the built environment. This is the second of three episodes in the Foundations Series.

The Scales Framework returns for the tragic second act.

Use hashtag #ana002 to reference this episode in a tweet, shared post, or comment.

View full show notes at anarchitecturepodcast.com/ana002.

----more----

Intro

How do you shape the land to foster your ideal vision of societal organization? One of early America’s premier architects shaped the built environment for the ideal of democracy by drawing the lines of the Continental Grid.

But these lines weren’t drawn with a pen; they were drawn with an eraser.

Discussion

Definition of a State

Initiation of Force

Consent and Legitimacy

The Violence Inherent in the System

The State or The Mafia?

Justifications for Government

Government Monopolies

Limits on government power

Realities of Democracy

Democracy as a tool for legitimacy

The Scales Framework goes to Washington

Would you initiate force in your house? Neighborhood? Canada?

House, Property and Neighborhood Scales

Outsourcing force to the state; Police as hired guns

Noise, social norms, ordinances, and zoning

Garden gnomes and the Virgin Mary in a Bathtub

Metropolis Scale

Taxes as aggression

Infrastructure, public schools, public transport

Does monopoly solve poverty?

Does voting solve monopoly?

Non-experts running services

A prerequisite for political office

Crowding out low cost private schools

Region Scale

Infrastructure as redistribution

Regulation and Standardization

Global Scale

International Standards and trade wars

Immigration

War and legitimacy

Problem solving in Detroit and Yemen

Aggression, radicalization, and blowback

The fundamental contradiction of government force

Conclusion

Links/Resources

The violence inherent in the system!

OK, so it was Harrison Ford

Speaking of Harrison Ford, he was clearly acting in self defense

Then there’s Clint Eastwood…

“It’s not like the cops are going to crash your party and start waving their guns around…”

Who’s being naive?

But private schools are only for the rich!

  continue reading

37 episodes

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