Socrates had proven himself in battle. He earned the franchise. That’s why he even had the right to speak.
Source date (UTC): 2016-10-08 07:05:00 UTC
Theme: Governance
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War isn’t an extension of politics. War is the natural state of man. Politics is
War isn’t an extension of politics. War is the natural state of man. Politics is a means by which we limit it.
Whence politics evolves into a natural state, resistance, rebellion and war are the means by which we limit it.
War and Politics equilibrate one another.
(h/t Erich Maria de Villiers )
Source date (UTC): 2016-10-08 05:54:00 UTC
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Clausewitz had it backward. War isn’t an extension of politics. War is the natur
Clausewitz had it backward. War isn’t an extension of politics. War is the natural state of man. Politics is a means by which we limit it.
Source date (UTC): 2016-10-08 01:09:31 UTC
Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/784561326588919809
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Clausewitz had it backward. War isn’t an extension of politics. War is the natur
Clausewitz had it backward. War isn’t an extension of politics. War is the natural state of man. Politics is a means by which we limit it.
Source date (UTC): 2016-10-07 21:09:00 UTC
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Women and Men
Women exist as our mothers, sisters, daughters, wives and friends. In that capacity we are equal. But in politics and war women are as incapable as men are of conception and birth. And it is more likely that men will give birth than women will demonstrate capability in politics and war. Dependence upon female defense of communal capital is as suicidal as dependence upon male bearing of offspring.
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Women and Men
Women exist as our mothers, sisters, daughters, wives and friends. In that capacity we are equal. But in politics and war women are as incapable as men are of conception and birth. And it is more likely that men will give birth than women will demonstrate capability in politics and war. Dependence upon female defense of communal capital is as suicidal as dependence upon male bearing of offspring.
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Democracy’s Monopoly Commons vs Rule of Law’s Market Commons
The value of democracy in the selection of commons decreases with the size of the population voting. Why? because the size of the population increases the diversity of interests. And because democracy allows us only to choose between priorities from within common interest – it’s a monopolistic means of choosing which commons to produce. So when we increase in scale, we require markets to conduct exchanges between different common interests, not monopolies, to ignore our uncommon interests.
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Democracy’s Monopoly Commons vs Rule of Law’s Market Commons
The value of democracy in the selection of commons decreases with the size of the population voting. Why? because the size of the population increases the diversity of interests. And because democracy allows us only to choose between priorities from within common interest – it’s a monopolistic means of choosing which commons to produce. So when we increase in scale, we require markets to conduct exchanges between different common interests, not monopolies, to ignore our uncommon interests.
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Moscow’s Indirect Education Of Europeans
Moscow’s conquest of south-eastern ukraine broke not only the postwar consensus on borders, but the peace of Westphalia that made states accountable for the factions inside their borders. To some degree this may help Europeans, and westerners, understand that their definition of war includes the assumption that wars are conducted by states against states rather than by factions within states against states or factions within other states – and that like the high trust society they live in, and the rule of law they live under, or the democracy that they practice, is just another European idiosyncrasy – an artifact of history that like trust, law, democracy, can readily convert to human norms of low trust, corruption, and totalitariansm.
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Moscow’s Indirect Education Of Europeans
Moscow’s conquest of south-eastern ukraine broke not only the postwar consensus on borders, but the peace of Westphalia that made states accountable for the factions inside their borders. To some degree this may help Europeans, and westerners, understand that their definition of war includes the assumption that wars are conducted by states against states rather than by factions within states against states or factions within other states – and that like the high trust society they live in, and the rule of law they live under, or the democracy that they practice, is just another European idiosyncrasy – an artifact of history that like trust, law, democracy, can readily convert to human norms of low trust, corruption, and totalitariansm.