When the Chinese philosopher (Confucius) failed to solve the problem of politics

When the Chinese philosopher (Confucius) failed to solve the problem of politics (truthful debate and property and jury) he directed all men into a vast hierarchical family administered by a hierarchical bureaucracy with decidability provided by his version of morality “order/non-conflict”. While this retained the extended Chinese clan/tribe ( family), it caused the eventual stagnation of the polity, economy, bureaucracy and civilization. However, while we in the west solved the problem of politics, we failed to solve the problem of family/clan/polity. Whether in Rome, in the roman church, and in England we failed. Only in Germany – surrounded on three sides – did they grasp the importance of family/clan/tribe/nation as a limit on corporatism.

And we conquered them for it.

(sigh)