Thank you for posting that link! I watched it all. I really enjoyed it. There were some very nice touches in it, such as his reference to Buckhead's famous post:
His example of Bill W's genius or inspiration or whatever you want to call it, regarding AA's organizational principles was another one.
As he was talking about virtue I thought of “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters. ” (Benjamin Franklin)
and John Adams: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
The main question I had while watching it though, is this; isn't it the very nature of Statists and totalitarians to try extinguish the kind of parallel and horizontal networks of freedom and competition he is advocating, even though they are no direct threat to the State? Is he being naive to believe the government will let such networks alone? His example of home schoolers illustrates the paradigm well but he did not address what the State often tries to do to them.
I'm not dissing his ideas at all. I find them fascinating, and I'm sure he would have an answer to my question if I asked him.
Thanks again for posting it. It was well worth the time.
Cordially,