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@h4890 @freepatriot

This seems roughly right. People associate initially based on similar inclinations. These arise from similar genetics.

Over time, they adopt methods that work, and these become habit, which becomes culture and then, a force for natural selection.

However, I think this misses the essence of culture, which is a shared goal and a spirit+aesthetics of how to achieve that.

Culture is more than methodology. It is perhaps then overlapping visions of the good, beautiful, and real.

@h4890 @korsier @freepatriot

This is why you need a large number of lesser aristocrats.

The kings respond to threats to their legacy, all the way down.

The balance of power is what produced the Magna Carta.

Better to keep it informal.

@h4890 @korsier @freepatriot

Coca-Cola is frequently used as an argument against a libertarian state.

That is, if you have markets alone decide things, you get what people want instead of what they need.

There is truth to this.

Counterpoint is that McDonald's has responded to market pressure and their food is about half healthier now.

Bigger point is that the herd is a threat, and markets are not a hinge against this except under dire Darwinistic conditions.

@h4890 @korsier @freepatriot

That is, in a cyberpunk dystopia, where your choice to buy Coca-Cola over ammo turns out to be fatal before you can breed, selection pressures will shape the market.

But that goes out the window with functional agriculture.

@cjd @h4890 @korsier @freepatriot

I do not think it is that simple. Decentralized systems can be politicized as well.

And often market choice is stupid...

But if you allow the higher IQ to educate themselves as they see fit, you get competent people.

@h4890 @korsier @freepatriot @cjd

Tom Wolfe wrote expertly about this

The academics always resent business for making people wealthier

It's revenge of the eggheads against the salesmen

It's the same thing, that which is (politically) decentralized implies choice, which implies market dynamics and anti-fragility. No market pressure -> decay is a sure thing.

@h4890 @freepatriot

Solid point: reality is consistent, and this is all we know or need know.

I agree with this line of reasoning.

(a) if it is a simulcra with no consequences, we are simply amusing ourselves winning the game.

(b) if it is the solipsistic state, the individual is making his/her mind more consistent.

(c) if it is idealistic or materialistic, the consequences are important in either case.

Is Rand Paul the only American who still cares about freedom?

Then bomb the fuck out of you

@freepatriot thats dumb

Decentralized things are subject to competitive pressure which causes them to improve over time.

Centralized things are not so subject, so they can only degrade over time.

Exactly how they degrade is anyone's guess, but the failure of a public school system and the failure of a worn out engine are the same fundamental process.

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