Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

FROM THE PREAMBLE

—“The failure of the Constitutional Age has been caused by overestimation of man, denial of our incremental eugenic domestication of man, the extension of franchise without purchase by demonstrated achievement, the lack of rigor in the construction of constitutions, the pretense of benevolence by governors and administrators, the malincentives that each of these frailties creates, and the natural tendencies of all organizations of all scales to maximize rents and exploit all opportunities to the point of failure at costs to human, institutional, and territorial capital, until unable to adapt to changes, innovations, or shocks, and lastly, and perhaps most importantly, the failure of state, court, law, and our people, to adapt to the industrialization of lying made possible by academy, state, bureaucracy, media, entertainment and commerce, and the expurgation of the military and militia and martial character, discipline, and order from our education, our commons, and our government.”—