Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology

EXPLAINING AMERICAN CIV – AND A CAUTION
https://t.co/7Whhhi8lzn
Wow. Every single note. Flawless.
The usual perfection by @whatifalthist.

(My notes:)
1) Only one property is missing. That is, the diversity of american elites puts pressure on retaining the common natural concurrent law as the only means of reconciliation of differences. Whereas Europe has been more vulnerable because it DOESN”T have rule of law, it has rule of parliament. This is why early Europeans, the Greeks, Romans, Germans, English, and Americans all evolved the law: because it’s the only means of resolving conflict and providing ‘markets’ for elites. And science is an extension of the law to matters outside of the law: it’s the system of weights and measures in the absence of authority.

2) The frontier? Yes. But that’s not meaningful. The seas? The European continent? The desire to cross the Bosphorus? But I’d argue that just ‘Aryanism’ (indo european: heroic, militaristic, technological, sky worshipping, expansionist, where man is destined to walk among the gods). And Aryanism (an alliance of warrior families requires sovereignty and law) requires law in the absence of authority.

This is why I emphasize the law of the governing and the vs religion of the clerisy and peasantry, and ‘respect’ between them. That led to America’s near-equal treatment of the constitution and religion as sacred.

IMO we have over-emphasized the populism of the church vs the elitism of the aristocracy and the law as the means of decision-making in the absence of authority. Western law is law as laws of nature are law. The rest of the world does NOT practice law. We just call it that because it forms the same function: rules and commands.

And the similarity between Europeans and Jews and the outsized theoretical contribution of both, is that these are both law-based societies.

Small things in large numbers over long periods have vast consequences. And those consequences share a common ancestry, a common cause, and that cause is simple, and profound.

Why?
The inability to impose authority generates the necessity of law, reason to explain and justify it, and norms and traditions that evolve from it. In the case of Judaism, it was a separatist, feminine, and social worldview. In the west, it was an aristocratic, masculine, and military-economic worldview.

The world of human behavior requires only a handful of rules to explain. This means that societies only have to make a small number of strategic decisions during their evolution.

But it’s an Anna Karenina dilemma. Many things must go right for this rational scientific market system to evolve and survive. But most civilizations failed the AK dilemma.

So is the west better or just the least wrong of the civilizations?

One thing is for sure, the overwhelming demand for individual responsibility in this western and particularly american civilization is the most costly, and emotionally and psychologically burdensome.

We should not expect that everyone is both willing and able to pay that cost. And we cannot have a society with many people unwilling to do so. And the Marxist-to-feminist-to-woke sequence is just that: the search for evasion of individual responsibility necessary for the preservation of sovereignty.

Cheers