Having finished Suarez’s “Critical Mass” I’m now most of the way through Corcoran’s first and am having some emotional difficulty reading it. After developing an allergy to politics with the “success” of the LSPA of 1990 (in seeing the intent of the law violated and our coalition being powerless to stop it), I only very reluctantly reentered the political fray with Ron Paul’s candidacies. When Ron Paul sacrificed his political viability for the high purpose of violating the most fundamental principles of individual liberty and the foundation of civilization, twice, it took quite a bit to get me back. Trump’s “Mexican Rapist Speech” managed to do it since Trump obviously decided to, in the words of Ann Coulter “Pick up the $1000 bill lying on the ground” with the immigration issue.
While I’m acutely aware that developing an entire ecosystem from the ground up entails careful consideration of what constitutes “natural rights”, I’m afraid Corcoran is going to try to resurrect a corpse that should remain dead: The “anarcho-capitalist philosophy” about immigration that I’ve been hearing ever since I attended Libertarian Party meetings in San Diego with La Raza and “Catholic” activists in the 1980s. There is so much potential for such nuance that it would be tragic if someone with his obvious writing talent used the exceptional conditions of artificial ecosystem creation as merely a polemical device in service of such a bad ideology. That he wrote it after the tragedy of Ron Paul and at least in part responding to the election of Trump, really has me slogging through the rest for whatever value there might be hiding in there.