анонимный вопрос

People are held captive by Hobbes. The idea of a war of all against all, from which the benevolent state saves them, looms over their minds. It is even strange that it hasn’t started being taught in middle school yet. However, propaganda doesn’t necessarily need to delve into the depths of the history of philosophy; it shoves the wicked nineties in people’s faces and tries to convince them: here it is, your ancap—do you like it, do you want it again, you cannibals?

This is precisely what people ask first when they hear that there is not a single service officially provided by the state that could not be provided with higher quality and at a lower cost in a free competitive market. In other words, people say, you want to privatize everything, abolish all social protection, and leave only a wild market flooded with scammers and bandits, with no one left to fight them.

After such an approach, not everyone manages to explain that a new set of nineties is certainly not the goal, nor even an inevitable consequence of the transition to a market, and let’s look at Georgia, for example, which is much closer to current times. Many simply shut down, either because their personal experience of the nineties was too painful, or because they didn’t intend to have a discussion in the first place and simply consider this the most effective thesis against ancap.

As for the memes about roads and similar folklore—that is the interest of those who are younger, who didn’t experience the nineties at a conscious age, and for them, ancap is just some abstract internet joke