Capitalist Anarchy in New Frontier

Here's a quick article trying to outline a few of the ideas behind the emergence of capitalist anarchy in my latest book, which has drawn a bit of criticism from a few fans who seem to think this is somehow offensive, thought I honestly don't fully understand what is offensive in presenting a philosophical idea in a work of fiction confuses me.

The idea of capitalistic anarchy, which appeared ludicrous to me even just a few years ago, became the initial impetuous behind the story of New Frontier, originally with me thinking of what an absurd and worthless system of society that it would create a beautiful backdrop for a story about human achievement.  What happened, in the writing and researching, was that the concept of capitalistic anarchy challenged me in a new and unique way, altering some of my own opinions, but indeed creating a rich and complex backdrop which helped the story to thrive.

In the book the concept was simple, these modern governments running up ridiculous debt, offering tax cuts and increased spending in the Bush era and tax hikes and increased spending in the Obama era, though this is by no means only an American habit, there are many other nations which mimic the same unhealthy economic tendencies, became bloated to the point that they couldn’t keep the system rolling forward.  Too few people contributing to society, and too many taking until the structure only needs a slight push, and when you're standing on such an edge a natural disaster, war, even a riot at a sporting event might trigger a catastrophic collapse.  Specifically, in the novel New Frontier, a consortium of wealthy and ambitious dreamers founded a new company, the Alliance, with the goal of expanding space exploration when the governments kept cutting back on funding, and using the patents from the bevy of new inventions to filter new products into the populace and begin colonizing near space, the moon, and eventually move further out into the Solar System.  This singular company becomes so powerful that some of the smallest bankrupt countries turn to this private company for their salvation when the bubble breaks, and become, in effect, subsidiaries of the Alliance.

To this point in the concept I could track things, and thought that this might be a lesson in the ambitions of the corporate world, how they might slip out of control without regulation, but this crashed into another aspect of the novel which informed on this, though I originally conceived of them separately.  New Frontier, at its heart, is a new age of exploration, and the more I researched the first age of exploration, when Europeans first started crossing the Atlantic, the more I learned the hidden secret of what sent those ships around the globe and mapped the oceans and seas of the planet.  As children in school we’re always taught of the monarchy, and the church, standing behind the great explorers and funding their missions, most of our history books, at least the cursory ones which are mandated in schools, breeze past the economics which truly drove the age of exploration.  Not only the spice islands themselves, more profitable than the modern drug trade, which actually motivated the earliest expeditions only seeking out a chance to make fortunes there, but later the slave trade, the sugar trade, potatoes, and the list goes on and on.  These fortunes by the way were not limited to the crowned heads of state, companies rose up out of nothing and became world players, exploiting opportunity with innovation and daring.  Men from even the lowest classes of society could rise higher than at almost any point in history before, breaking down the old class system, which was less ridged at the start of the age of exploration but still the last traces of strict feudalism remained, and introducing a chance for advancement, and fall, unheard of in generations.
New Frontier became something different from what I first set out to write, not an indictment of business or a indulgence of a youthful fantasy of the evils of money, this became a celebration of the success which business can drive humanity to achieve, while also accepting that within that same framework, greed runs as rampant as innovation.  This wild west which the world of humanity descends into works both ways, unfettered from the restraints which government puts on individuals and society, embracing that full anarchy spirit, might led to breakthroughs in technology or military, but there is nothing there to defend an idea or fortune but the person who has it, and the others who might try taking it away.  I wanted to look at both sides of this fascinating philosophy, the good and the bad, and let it breathe, and see what we might learn from this world which took far different turns than the one we live in today.  But we never know what will happen tomorrow.
For those of you out there who've read the book, let me know what you think, did the book make you think, make you angry, make you intrigued, make you into a full blown anarchist?

Jeremy Lee