KRISTOR writes at VFR:

People forget how society naturally organized itself before the statists began their insults to the natural order. People forget that before about 1900, municipalities had nothing to do with creating marriages; there were no marriage licenses. Churches performed marriages. No one else had the authority to do it.

No one knows that in 1850, banks issued their own currencies, that competed with the currency of the Bank of the United States. We have so much forgotten the idea of private bank notes, that we cannot even understand why Hamilton had to fight to get the U.S. to own its own bank, and issue its own currency. If we had competing currencies today, we would not have inflation. We’d have boomlets and bustlets, rather than the enormous run-ups and crashes we now get.

People forget that there were once no public schools, no public universities. They forget that 150 years ago, pretty much the only hospitals out there were run by churches, as charitable operations. That’s why nurses used to wear those funny little hats; back in the day, all nurses were nuns, and those funny little hats nurses wore up until about 1970 were descendents of wimples.

Yet that natural, organically developed system of social organization, cobbling itself together out of the ruins of Rome and under continuous assault from the Muslims, built the West. It wasn’t perfect. It was just less imperfect than all its competitors

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