The difference between educated Ukrainians and Americans is limited to the aware

The difference between educated Ukrainians and Americans is limited to the awareness of political corruption, the experience of the trustworthiness of others, and the competence of middle and upper management. This leads entrepreneurs in the Ukraine to ‘think small’ because it requires a smaller network of trust. It leads americans to ‘think big’ because they can rely on large networks of trust.

Just as say, americans think brits are obsessed with procedure (the movie Brazil is more documentary than fiction), and procedure is a method of not-caring about the interests and incentives of others, and limiting the sphere of one’s concerns, Ukrainians have this low-trust, cash-economy, where they are obsessed with small transactions.

We forget that all of this western ‘magic’ works because we were raised with the Oath in one way or another, and our ‘priesthood’ of judges protects that oath.

We forget that that oath arises from membership in the militia (warriors, men), we take upon ascension in to manhood.

There is no commitment higher than this oath.

That is the secret to the western rates of progress in each era.

We simply ‘calculate’ faster than other groups.