The West Is a Better but More Complex Game

Mar 5, 2020, 9:46 PM

Every social order creates a game. Western civlization demands sovereignty – the antithesis of submission. The game is that we must find ways to govern by limits without imposing on sovereignty. So where most civilizations and moral codes are constructed of via positiva directives at the cost of innovation and adaptation, while western civilization is constructed from via negativa prohibitions within the limits of sovereignty at the cost of people coming to harm from their judgements.

We play a more complex game.

Self Determination, Sovereignty, Possibility of Success or Failure, Status Rewards for Heroism with tolerance, even accolades, for failure for having tried.