I agree that the article doesn't much consider government enforcement, but I don't think that's a flaw because your point is consistent with my thesis. Why does the government write property laws and zealously enforce them? Why does the government end up with that power? Why does the government, like everyone else, treat money as having value? Because government, too, is hallucinating these taboos. The conspiratorial libertarian explanation here, that the government wants to act as a tyrant won't suffice, in my view.

I agree that once the government is established such that it can punish thieves, it's rational to treat private property with respect, to avoid being thrown in jail. But my sociological explanation is operating at a deeper level of analysis. The question is why societies are set up in this way in the first place. What are the primordial forces that compel us to assign the government these rights? One of these deep causes, I submit, is that we all get on the same page by being entranced by myths, by potent fictions, which domesticate us, training our mind with an imaginary prison known as "the conscience."