Mencius Moldbug urges a return to the classical European tradition of political thought:
This is a deeper, faster and colder river than the American democratic tradition, which largely rejects all pre-American political thought — even the Greeks and Romans, whose opinion of democracy was much the same as Carlyle’s. “Plato? Aristotle? Socrates? Morons.” That would be you, O worshiper at the altar of the People.
Libertarians, those who believe that minimal government is good government, should consider metrics for the weight of the State — and they might be surprised by what they find:
One obvious such metric is the ratio of governors to governed, ie, civil servants to serfs.And who is the grand champion in this category? I have not run the numbers — but one strong candidate must be the British Raj, in which a century ago 250 million Indians were governed by 1000 Englishmen. Without computers, etc. If we could apply the same ratio to the New California, which admittedly is a big if, it would be the size of a large startup. Minimal enough for ya?