When people are afraid, they tend to subordinate themselves. Then, Illiberal concepts help to justify our slide into self-subordination. Courage starts with naming these concepts and calling them out.
Every society must have a final arbiter of disputes. Because the final arbiter must stand above the disputes he arbitrates, he is perforce anarchic. Thus, as Alfred G. Cuzán* showed, there is no escape from anarchy.
Here is the heart of all political science: Either there is a single anarchic arbiter claiming sole insight into universal moral laws, with monopoly on a police power from which there is no escape; or there are multiple anarchic arbiters modestly asserting insight into communal morals of long acceptance, whose power is constrained by the threat of abandonment.
Every society must have a final arbiter of disputes. Because the final arbiter must stand above the disputes he arbitrates, he is perforce anarchic. Thus, as Alfred G. Cuzán* showed, there is no escape from anarchy.
Here is the heart of all political science: Either there is a single anarchic arbiter claiming sole insight into universal moral laws, with monopoly on a police power from which there is no escape; or there are multiple anarchic arbiters modestly asserting insight into communal morals of long acceptance, whose power is constrained by the threat of abandonment.
*https://mises.org/library/revisiting-do-we-ever-really-get-out-anarchy