This is Monica Perez, and we are here continuing our reading and discussion of Our Enemy,

The State by Alvert J. Knock. And I have to say, this is my, I've been looking forward to this

since last week.

I love this book.

I think it's because it's so well written and it's so fundamental.

And sometimes when you get overwhelmed by what seems like libertarianism gone wrong,

like that it's been exploited and abused,

and it makes you question your principles of limited government

because you're, you know, I mean,

I think a lot of people think, well, it's impossible,

so you might as well have defensive government

or government for me government or identity-based government.

And you go back to these guys like NAC and Basiat

and they make it very clear that the only

way to tolerate large organized bodies of human beings, which is kind of a feature of the labor

saving technological world, you have to have these safeguards against government. Government's

very limited, if or anarcho-capitalism, fine because society is self-ordering. However, I think part

of the game right now of getting the right into identity politics is that they're abandoning

the founding principles of this country

or even more to the point, maybe it's Enlightenment, Scottish Enlightenment principles,

or just libertarian principles in general. But I remember very distinctly the first time I read

this book where he talks about colonial America. And I remember very distinctly the first time I read this book where he talks about

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