ABSTRACT
This chapter contains reflections on the story which have argumentative bearing on the story to come; conceptually it ushers in the constructive material forthcoming from the critical material just gone. It is a pause between the first part where the dramatis personae, to keep the metaphor going, have turned away from one pathway to anarchism without finding it necessary, therefore, to take to archy. So far three perspectives on anarchy, all of which have a preoccupation with the centrality of possessive individualism as a politico-economic motive, have been explored. To various extents each direction taken has been guided by an invisible hand explanation. This is explicitly so in Nozick, tacit with Hobbes and Rothbard. The chapter outlines a case history which is living proof, in a sense, of Nozick's hypothetical degenerative state of nature. A protocol amongst the PI arguments considered here is emerging with regard to the escape clause.
