I’d recommend that people read John’s clarificatory post in comments– and would ask that we be polite to our guest! I agree that his main post below is a bit unclear. But let’s then engage him in conversation (as Aeon Skoble did in comments to elicit the clarification). John’s always been one of the more thoughtful, patient, and civil of libertarianism’s critics in the liberal blogosphere.  (See his contribution to the debate with Chris Bertram et.al.– a post that’s related to the issues he discusses below.)  I think he’s got a lot more than one post worth of accumulated credit, and in any case has more than earned civil treatment from us when he comes to visit.

Update:

See John’s summary of his post, the Aeon-John-me series that starts here,  and the John-me-John series that starts here.