INTERESTING IDEA: EAST VS WEST CLASS INTERESTS? Siraaj Khandkar —“Your distinc

INTERESTING IDEA: EAST VS WEST CLASS INTERESTS?

Siraaj Khandkar

—“Your distinction of two highest tiers is interesting. I always wondered what are the main differences that influenced developments of Western and Eastern Europe (besides geography-necessitated strategies) and one of the things seems to be that Russian highest classes peak at ideas (your lower upper) and rarely prioritize entrepreneurship (this is how I understand your “Power, Associations, Opportunities”).”—

Curt Doolittle

^^^ correct. Although I had not considered that, you’re right. Western judiciary and laws provide protections such that the entrepreneurial class can operate fairly freely without fear of predation by the state. (but omg if you do anything bad the state will eat you in public one bite at a time, to make an example of you.) Russian thinkers are deep and creative. But the entrepreneurial class (a dozen of whom I’ve met) live in relative fear OR evolve into oligarchs that the government fears.

I also think that the history of Boyars as predators and soviets, then gangsters, and oligarchs have left Russians exhausted and suspecious. Germanic europeans did not have this problem. The princedom’s competed for talent. American europeans didn’t have it at all since we never have had a ‘noble’ class other than the entrepreneurial class we call the ‘Puritans’/Calvinists.

Americans have a serious problem with our big financial institutions, but any INDIVIDUAL in them is easy to take down. We are so dependent upon those financial institutions, just as Russians are dependent upon their resource institutions.

I’ve been sort of back and forth on the whole putin vs oligarchs thing, but we need to do a similar thing here in the west. Because the Soros’ and Rothchilds and various large financial institutions do what the oligarchs have done, but just use more sophisticated means of doing it. But our people are just as pissed off. They just are in the condition of Russia in the 1990’s so they aren’t ready to kill people yet. (But we’re getting there.)

I think what differs between east and west europe is that the highest power in the west are the judges, and the highest power in the east are the rulers. And that’s probably been an historical truth since the dawn of our civilizations. In america even more so than in europe. Our supreme court at least until recently, and our constitution, at least until recently, were considered ‘sacred’. And in western history kings have had a very difficult time usurping the common law. In english history it’s a good way for a king to get killed.