OPEN CLASSROOM: YES I TEACH ALL DAY LONG … 😉 INSTITUTIONS: 1) There are only

OPEN CLASSROOM: YES I TEACH ALL DAY LONG … 😉

INSTITUTIONS:

1) There are only three means of coercion, and so only three institutions of political organization: Force (State, Military), Law (Judiciary, Economy), and Ostracization (Religion, Tradition Norm, and Family).

2) The first institution a civilization develops will remain more influential than their second, and second more influential than third.

3) Europeans developed law first,state second, and Philosohpy not religion. The Chinese developed the State first, Philosophy Second and never law. The Semites developed Religion first, religous law second, and failed at the state (at leat, outside of egypt – whose state was strong because of odd geography of the nile and its natural borders.

4) The order of development of those institutions determined the spectrum of truth(Europeans), to face before truth (Chinese), to Deceit (Semites). There is a high cost of each hierarchy of institutions.

5) The First Organized Religion (Mesopotamia) was a scam. It worked. It spread lying as the first institution. From that point forward, the middle east was doomed to the limits of religion and the fact that religions is a lie. The chinese were doomed to the limits of the state, and the fact that the state can only command. The europeans were lucky: the law adapts fastest as long as the state is still strong enough to defend the territory against invaders. This is the problem of the west – we are vulnrable to invasion (rome, and postwar europe). Why? Commercial interests (law) can easily overwhelm the intersts of the state (the capital of the people).