{"id":2966,"date":"2019-12-17T13:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennispresiloski.com\/portfolio\/?p=2966"},"modified":"2019-12-17T13:37:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T13:37:19","slug":"anarchy-state-and-utopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennispresiloski.com\/portfolio\/2019\/12\/17\/anarchy-state-and-utopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Anarchy, State, and Utopia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Is it possible for a book to be TOO logical? Prior to reading this I would have said &#8220;no,&#8221; but now I&#8217;m not so sure. A lot of long boring X = Y + Z sort of statements, mixed in with deep thought about political philosophy and morality.<br><br>Nozick makes a strong case for a minimal state being the most justifiable form of human government, and that neither anarchy nor utopia are consistent with human freedom and happiness.<br><br>I read this book because I was told that it refuted John Rawl&#8217;s &#8220;Veil of ignorance&#8221; argument for a redistributive state. I think it succeeded, though I couldn&#8217;t now tell you how.  Pure logic isn&#8217;t always enough, we humans are story-understanding-machines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video-container\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/49-hUPHXRbk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it possible for a book to be TOO logical? Prior to reading this I would have said &#8220;no,&#8221; but now I&#8217;m not so sure. A lot of long boring X = Y + Z sort of statements, mixed in with deep thought about political philosophy and morality. Nozick makes a strong case for a minimal state being the most&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[57,61],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/dennispresiloski.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/anarchy.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jba6-LQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennispresiloski.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennispresiloski.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennispresiloski.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennispresiloski.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennispresiloski.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2966"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/dennispresiloski.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2982,"href":"http:\/\/dennispresiloski.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2966\/revisions\/2982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennispresiloski.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennispresiloski.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennispresiloski.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennispresiloski.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}