Theme: Institution

Fundamentally, assuming you were intellectually honest, if you were to spend the next twenty years of your life studying political science, with the goal of long term stability and prosperity, then you would come to these conclusions:

• The Problem
  
  a) Time:
  b) Space (distribution):
  d) Acting:
  c) Choosing an Action:
  d) Memory:
  e) Limited Knowledge:
  f) Planning:
  g) Opportunity Costs:
  h) Learning (imitation):
  i) Choosing What To Learn (Alphas)
  
• Mankind:
  • The Genders:
• Society
  • A Society is it’s Market
  • Productivity
• Institutions:
  • Cultural-Forgone Opportunities:
  • Time Preference
  • Suppression Of Corruption
  • A System Of Property Definitions
  • Metaphysical Objectives
  • Administrative and Procedural:
  • Cooperative Institutions
  • Meritocratic Rotation of Elites / Denial Of Non Meritocratic Access:
  • Recognizing New Rules
  • Coordinating Of Group Investments:
  • Means Of Resolving Differences:
  • Limits On Power
• Government:
• hereditary monarch
• aristocracy
• democratically elected common house
  • Monarchy:
• Rule Of Law:
• Redistribution:

7) Failure: Governments and empires fail for these reasons:

• Debasement:
• Overextension:
• Birth Rates:
• Money:
• Trade Routes:
• Calculative Institutions:
• Irrationalism:
• Cultural Habits/Opportunity Costs:
• Externalities:
• Disasters:

8) Three Types Of Coercion

9) Social and Economic Classes 10) Human Failure:

11) Failures Of Political Discourse a) the multitude of transfers 12) The Hierarchy Of Argument

13) Personal Ethics a) Speak The Truth, and at worst say nothing b) Do Nothing To Others You Would Not Want Done Unto You c) Engage in no exchange wherein the other party will ever regret his purchase. 15) Social Problems In Advanced Society a) The Loneliness and Anonymity Of The Division Of Labor and The Affect On Society b) The Difference Between The Urban And The Rural c) The Status Competition Between Groups who will seek political power to alter their condition. The utility of different governments can be determined by historical analogy, by articulated reason, by empirical study of economic performance, and by demonstrated stability against revolution, adaptability to external shocks, and the temporal duration of the system of rules itself. Under those criteria, only the class-tiered system of government survives scrutiny. In particular, democratic governments are temporary, and the result of extraordinary wealth created by conquest of new territory or trade routes. And totalitarian governments are impoverishing, regardless of circumstances. It is the combination of all forms of government so that the different social classes have institutions wich allow them to achieve their ends without detriment to the institutions of the society that is superior to forms of government that reflect the desires ONLY of certain classes of society. Our western error has been that we feel we must enfranchise everyone into the same structure without accounting for differences in our knowledge, skill, ability and preferences. Unfortunately, the horrors of the world wars caused westerners to question their civilization’s principles, rather than the rate of technological evolution and the rate of population growth, and our inability to EXTEND our system of western government fast enough to accomodate them, and instead we have, quite wrongly, thrown out the entire system rather than improving it by ADDING to our rather empirical system of government. The consequences of marxian collectivism, coinciding with feminism, the debate over slavery, and the immigration of non-western people’s, was far greater than our system could tolerate. And the reason our system could not tolerate it, was because we were still relying too much on moral religious doctrine rather than fully articulated reason: we simply did not understand the reasons our western form of government was superior.