Category: Civilization, History, and Anthropology

@DrRicardoDuchesne Tangent: Furniture as High Art: Demand for High Art: When the monarchies and the nobility existed they created a market for excellence. When the middle class ruled they created a market for commodity. When the underclass rules they created a market for degeneracy.

Europe requires the monarchy and nobility for very simple reasons: the generation of a market for excellences rather than commodities or degeneracies is only one of them. It’s the luxury reason. The practical reason is that monarchs can ‘throw the bums out’, and put a new government in place that produces excellences in the commons rather than commoditeis and degeneracies in the commons. Because that’s all governments do: create commons. And without monarchies they will act as renters, and maximize consumption of the commons’. Material, institutional, traditional, normative, behavioral, informational, technological, scientific.

The french didn’t herald change. The english and the prussians did. The restoration of european civilization. And they insured not only the napoleonic destructino of the holy roman empire, but the functino of nobility and monarchy as producing small competing political states producing excellences that led to germany as the greatest technicians scientists economists and rulers that we have known.