Yes, "critical junctures." They make me lose sleep because we can't know them ex ante, only seen in hindsight. Some on here have been suggested ours already passed
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When was the west's critical juncture?
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Replying to @RokoMijic @RokoMijicUK and
Jim's answer that I find pretty persuasive is when King George IV failed to divorce Caroline for blatantly flagrant adultery and whoring fatally weakening the crown in everyone's eyes and remaking the status hierarchy.
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Why would that matter? Anyway, I don't know much about the 1800s so I could be wrong, but it doesn't sound that important to me.
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Replying to @RokoMijic @RokoMijicUK and
It matters because it determines who and what is high status. A healthy social structure needs a King at the top who is the fount of all honors. Without one you get power that cloaks itself in anonymity and bad signalling from trying to please power in the form of an egregore
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I think the King thing is not very smart. Kings are fallible humans and after several generations of peace and inbreeding they become absolute retards. This "man" is very nearly the King of Great Britain (probably won't be, but almost)pic.twitter.com/Q7I9FAGC3M
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Replying to @RokoMijic @CovfefeAnon and
I would make a better king. You would. He's an idiot. He doesn't understand power. He's being obviously manipulated by a woman. JFC man this guy is a walking, talking reductio ad absurdum of monarchism.
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Replying to @RokoMijic @RokoMijicUK and
The sad thing is that I had high hopes for him before he destroyed himself simping for a mediocre used up prostitute. From what I could tell he had a legit military career in a demanding technical area and had the respect of his military.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @RokoMijicUK and
He's also likely not Charles' son (certainly everyone involved knows the truth of the matter even if it's non-public) so there was probably quite a bit going on behind the scenes.
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Kings were OK when they had to periodically prove themselves on the battlefield. Combat doesn't work like that any more, so as far as I am concerned the Royal Family is good as a figurehead but nothing more.
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The Royal Family has the virtue of existing and having historical continuity but has the downside of not having risen to power by building a cohesive structure or having been tested by actual rule.
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