The concepts he eloquently sets out are entirely embedded in the work that I have been doing.
When I talk about the principle that those who have exclusive rights to a Commons should compensate those they exclude then it is "privilege" aka property rights I am addressing.
What I am adding to the whole body of thought of which Geonomist is a leading light is an entirely new - consensual and, to refer to the post, "two way" or RECIPROCAL - take on the legal protocols which may be used to actually "bound" the whole body of privileges and obligations which bind us a Society.
This gives rise to what is literally a new form of tenure (neither Freehold nor Leasehold) of INDEFINITE duration - for as long as you have the Privilege you compensate Society.
This is in turn based upon an entirely new set of Metaphysical assumptions - Robert Pirsig's "Metaphysics of Quality" - in the evolution of which the Rockefeller-funded University of Chicago (unwittingly) played such a key role.
Unfortunately I have yet to find more than a couple of US citizens - and certainly none from Geonomists' colleagues - who "grok" what I am talking about.
I suspect this is because they, like most people, remain bounded by conventional assumptions of Property as an object - and of absolute property rights - as opposed to a property as the relationship it actually is - ie "Property" is a Thing/ Object which is "proper" to the Man/Subject.
I look forward keenly to reading more!
I too am particularly drawn to framing taxes as consensual. If taxes are based on privileges (correctly valued) then at the margin there would be no taxes. The least favorable land, EM spectrum, or minerals would be free. If a person didn't think the advantages from his privileges were worth the cost to himself then he could move and release the privilege to someone who did value the benefits. But of course, as soon as the "non-taxpayer" came to town (left marginal land) he would start paying indirectly.
While the US is farily rigid in our thinking about property rights there are signs of hope, here and there. Your last paragraph is on the mark regarding the typical American view of property. Part of what I am doing is searcing for a new language that has the power to "unhook" the American mind from where it gets stuck. In my local "market testing" I am having considerable success with getting people to see property differently.
