“the development of “truth before face” cultures in Western Europe … led to mo

–“the development of “truth before face” cultures in Western Europe … led to modern science and a higher trust society.”–
Anglo < Germanic < [ Roman < Greek ]< Early European < West Indo-European.

Original Incentives: Cattle + Metallurgy + horse/bronze/wheel Carts(Wagons) + entrepreneurial herding out of winter in the rivers into the rest of the seasons on the steppes = contract, duty, truth, oath as the organizing principle.

Essentially cattle herders and raiders banding together to live on carts and horses(land), and pirates on ships (water) have no choice but to develop proto-democratic institutions as there is no means of concentration of capital as in flood river valleys, so no means of coercion or territorial control except voluntarily alliances in self interest.

There is a meaningful literature on pirate economics and politics and the outcomes of the incentives are deterministic. Same applies to the Yamna et al.

Lesson: the middle class (producers) must always govern, since they are the only class with the greater interest of the polity as their own interests.

What’s Wrong: Post aristocratic/nobility governments were adequate, but underclass governments due to the industrial revolution and marxism and later feminism, and worst of all, multiculturalism, have moved the priority of the state from the excellence of the middle class demand for the population to demonstrate productivity AND aristocratic taste and martial values, to one that prioritizes expansion of the underclasses that can more easily be governed by the clerical class of credentialists that now runs nearly all.

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