Starchild, it sounds like Charles Johnson is to a certain extent a victim of the leftish fallacy that economies of scale are somehow equivalent to aggression. We geolibertarians don't impose our personal aesthetic judgment about whether malls or Burning Man are better; we just say: take away the force initiation and the subsidized location monopolies and let the people decide, through their bottom-up consensual market behavior.
For more on how truly market-based private communities would differ from the current system of subsidized landholding, see * Private Communities as <http://www.foldvary.net/works/pcnb.html> the Natural Benchmark * The Enterprise of <http://mises.org/journals/jls/17_4/17_4_1.pdf> Community * The <http://www.independent.org/pdf/events/2004-02-04-vcoutline.pdf> Voluntary City: Choice, Community, and Civil Society For a portal onto the geolibertarian/Georgist worldview that poverty can only exist with the denial of people's natural right of access to land (and how that denial distorts the marginal product of labor and thus wages), see http://www.wealthandwant.com/. Brian Holtz http://LibertarianIntelligence.com <http://libertarianintelligence.com/> Signal Intelligence About The LP
