“Democracy has brought us both the death of Socrates and the election of Hitler.

—“Democracy has brought us both the death of Socrates and the election of Hitler. It doesn’t get much better than that!”—

Women. Not “us”. Women. Not democracy per se. But women in democracy. The decline of the west was caused by the enfranchsement of women into the democratic process. Prior to their enfranchisement it certainly appears that the one family (man) one vote system functioned when there were houses for each class.

Since then, within one generation, women moved through democracy to devolve the west. And since then they have been “useful idiots” for communists, socialists, postmodernists, and feminists.

In the medieval era through the classical liberal era, we were evolving a market for the production of commons by the negotiated construction of trades between the classes, and our fascination with reason and equality led us to the fantasy of reasoned optimum decision making (monopoly rule), rather than merely constructing trades between classes.

I think this is the right analysis.

For high trust westerners, a market for commons is an extremely valuable competitive advantage.

But introduction of women into the polity allowed them to express their reproductive strategy – which the entire history of property rights evolved to suppress: parasitism.

I love women. But they are as cognitively blind to politics as men are cognitively blind to interpersonal relations.

Curt