Live Action Role Playing (LARPing) For Propertarians

Milton Friedman was an illogical advocate of right wing capitalism. C. B. MacPherson, in examining Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom, writes "One almost despairs of logic". Harry Johnson writes about the success of Friedman's monetarist counter-revolution by treating Friedman 'as if' he made up an oral tradition at Chicago. I am finding James Forder's Milton Friedman (2019) very critical of Milton. He writes of other accusations of Milton just making things up or otherwise behaving as a charlaton, including in Great Britain.

But never mind that. This post is about how his descendants engage in LARPing. Do you find them absurd?

Capitalism and Freedom is co-dedicated to Milton's son, David. David continues the silliness with his book, The Machinery of Freedom. His fantasy novel, Salamander, has the system of magic partially taken from LeGuin's Earthsea series and partially built on linear algebra. (This is the only one of his three fantasy novels I have read. I find it amusing.) David is an active participant in the Society of Creative Anachronisms, where he is known as Duke Cariadoc of the Bow. In addition to this LARPing, he writes about saga-period Iceland as a model of how law might work in a capitalist society.

Patri Friedman is the son of Davd Friedman. His confusion about LARPing can be seen in his founding of the Seasteading Institute. He was the executive director at its founding in 2008, with a large donation from Peter Thiel. He continued the LARPing with the founding of the Future Cities Development Corporation. No, Patri, you are not Lycurgus, the legendary author of Sparta's constitution. I am sorry that Paul Romer promotes this anti-democratic idea. Furthermore, Patri promotes the bizarre ideas of trans-humanism.

This LARPing may strike you as a combination of harmless recreation and silliness with no chance of being implemented. But here we are, with rich effs close to political power.