Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“As an asymptotic anarchist, I recognize that moving toward the goal of rules without rulers might mean having today to choose between an imperfect autocrat like Lee Kuan Yew and independent federal agencies an authoritarian politburo like the EU or CCP. Of course, despite the bluster and bombast of another Trump term, what we have here in the US is still mutating rapidly into a Sino-European administrative regime. So I won’t always clutch my pearls about moralistic or legalistic administrivia as this ship of state approaches the icebergs. My kids need lifeboats. Perhaps my critics would retort that by accepting compromises against the *rule of law,* I prime the coercive apparatus for future authoritarians to seize. Perhaps. But so does twiddling one’s thumbs while waiting for Godot’s Platonist Plans.” (08/12/25)
https://underthrow.substack.com/p/waiting-for-a-platonist-reform-plan