Yes, that is why we are taking an unacceptable amount of civilizational risk by not having what he stands for replicated in a distributed institution. An extraordinary share of civilizational hope currently sits in one man – one mortal, one account, one set of shoulders. So not only he has to be protected, but what he stands for has to be turned into an institution – distributed, permanent, capable of carrying the torch if we lose the man carrying it. A Council of Western Civilization. A body that says publicly what is legitimate and what is corrupt, and outlives everyone who founds it. (Venice used to have a Council of X:) We are lucky to live in his era. Luck is not a civilizational strategy.

Dear socialist friend, Nothing is stopping you. If collective ownership works so much better, you can prove it by next Tuesday. Pool your savings with your comrades. Elect a planning committee. Run a bakery, a farm, a repair shop – shared ownership, equal pay, decisions by vote. All of it is fully legal, today, everywhere in the West. No revolution needed. And yet. You want the workers to seize the factories – but you won’t open a food truck with three people from your group chat. You demand collective housing – but you won’t sign a joint lease with people who agree with you about everything. People have tried voluntary socialism for two hundred years. The communes keep dissolving – the members simply walk out. The only socialist countries that lasted were the ones that locked the borders. That’s the whole story. Where leaving is allowed, everyone leaves. Socialism only survives where leaving is banned. The people voted – on foot. Just do it. Or admit that "collective" was always just a word for other people’s property.