hodlbod on Nostr: I've always strongly identified as firmly right-wing, but I find myself embracing my ...

I've always strongly identified as firmly right-wing, but I find myself embracing my inner classical liberal more and more, as I grow in my appreciation of natural law and individual liberty. But "embracing the chaos" creates a vacuum of structure that has to be filled somehow. Authoritarianism naturally fills that vacuum by means of power. I'd much rather be under a right-authoritarian regime than a left-authoritarian regime, but what if avoiding authoritarianism is an option? I'm not sure the bottom-right-hand corner of the political compass can actually exist, because it will always result in a tragedy of the commons, and/or a different kind of authoritarianism (e.g. corporatism). Solving social problems with technology at first seems to lead to technocracy, which is just another kind of authoritarianism that arises out of right-libertarianism. But maybe sufficiently decentralized technologies are a leftist mechanism that moves the center of gravity away from authoritarianism? But of course many past efforts at using technology to fix social problems either collapse into centralization, or have flaws that have to be fixed with social solutions, which only lasts until the ones providing the social capital burn out (cf yesterweb).

You can tell I'm thinking out loud here because I have no paragraph breaks.