"Negative" liberties are forms of positive liberty that manage to disavow, by naturalizing, their contingent and artificial affordances. "Spontaneous" orders are forms of order that manage to deny their parochialism, history and costs through the force of their incumbency. "Nature" derives from the Latin nasci, to be born, to appear, but it matters that labor precedes birth and preparation enables appearance.
The essential work of the discourse of naturalization has come to be its disavowal of the artifice of what passes for the natural, this is an accomplishment indicated not least by the treatment of nature as the contrary to artifice rather than as a species of it. To belabor the obvious here, naturalization conduces to the maintenance or amplification of the status quo and to reactionary politics.
There is an affinity in the de-politicizing gesture through which always only some artifacts/techniques are constituted as "technology," and then the ready investment of some technologies so constituted with the work of a-politicizing conservatism. Techno-libertarian ideology absolutely depends on these discursive ploys, as when the end-to-end principle is implicitly identified with negative liberty, then enables the advocacy of plutocracy as meritocracy, or when prior faith in natural, virtuous spontaneous order (confirming its advocates they should rule, naturally) transforms encryption from technique to world-historical force that would abolish the unnatural, vicious barriers to the flowering of that spontaneous order.
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