Theme: Civilization

EXAMPLES OF TRIFUNCTIONALISM

1. A positive and negative charge either produce a stable equilibrium (particle) or they dissipate. So a triangle with negative at the bottom left, positive at the bottom right, and the height of the triangle the amount of energy or mass captured in the stable relation.
   
2. In any opportunity for exchange two people will only voluntarily do so if they both increase their capital (have more than they did before hand).
   
3. There are two sexes, the hyperconsumptive female (bottom left negative) and the hyperproductive male (bottom right positive) with voluntary exchange “marriage” the compromise between them that produces reproduction (the hight of the triangle).
   
4. There are three methods of coercion: force (defense), undermining (care), bribery (trade). Undermining the negative bottom left, force the positive bottom right, and trade the energy captured by reciprocal exchange.
   
5. Humans specialize in these means of coercion producing elites in that master these means of coercion, we call them right bottom feminine priesthoods offering false promises in exchange for inclusion, masuline warriros producing states offering defense in exchange for taxation, and craftsmen, scientists, entrepreneurs, and lawyers who master cooperation and the law of cooperation, that satisfies the equilibrium between the male and female interests.
   
6. There are three possible formal institutions, of coercion, the bottom right force(defense) and the state, and the bottom left undermining (inclusion) and Religion, and the law (cooperation, dispute resolution, trade). Only trade captures energy as a voluntary exchange (stable equilibrium) between male (force) and female (undermining).
   
7. Given the three means of coercion and the three possible institutions of coercion, humans evolve them in different sequences. Some develop force and state first (china) some religion first (middle east) and some law first (europeans). ANd this initial foundation creates a path-dependence (hierarchy of priority) meaning the first institution is strongest, the second institution is less so, and the third institution is weakest.
   
8. The rate of evolutionary adaptation of any people is determiend by their first institution, where religion is the slowest, the state the medium, and the law the fastest means of discovery, innovation, and adaptation. This explains the difference btweeen the rates of evolution of all civilizations. It explains teh chrsitian dark ages. It explains the failure of islam. It explains the success but stagnation of china. It explains the rate of evolution of europeans. It even explains why india was unable to produce formal institutions at scale, and why african produced no institutions.
   

This is a brief overview of the most simple examples that we can use to illustrate that the universe operates by a very simple rule of increasing the base of the triangle and the height of the triangle by computing via cooperating, the capture of increasing energy and mass.