Proposal: 4 axis model for classifying regimes for analyzing / predicting them. Axis 1: Power holders - Single, Group, Mass Axis 2: Power openness - Hidden, Open Axis 3: Formality - Formal, Informal Axis 4: Ruling cohesion basis - Priest, Warrior, Merchant
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
Your axes 2 fit neatly into the Lawful/Unlawful Aristotelian axis. Lawful regimes do not hide, only unlawful ones. Lawful regimes are also always formal (because they're in accordance with the form of the law).
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Replying to @Nix64261997 @CovfefeAnon
Axis 4 is theoretically valid but in practice indistinguishable from Axis 1. Rule of one always tends towards warrior rule, rule of few always tends towards priestly rule, rule of many always tends towards mercantile rule.
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Replying to @Nix64261997 @CovfefeAnon
Note that this is a tendency and not an iron law. I'll also add that the tripartite caste distinction is less useful in power analysis than the fox/lion distinction of Pareto et al.
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Replying to @Nix64261997
It's interesting to see what happens when you try to have states with cohesion mechanisms that don't match up to the ruling structure which is why it's interesting to have two scales. Also the US and China are similar in that they each have "few" coupled with different cohesion
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
Eg: Imperial Rome started out as a democracy transforming into a monarchy, the mercantile elite edged out by fox Augustus where lion Caesar failed. Gradually, Imperial Rome realigned itself, reaching permanent rule by Lion with Vespasian.
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Replying to @Nix64261997 @CovfefeAnon
The underlying difference between America and China isn't the cohesion, but the kind of person ruling and being ruled. Whites aren't Chinese, so they produce drastically different societies.
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Replying to @Nix64261997
Obviously the difference between whites and Chinese is important but the bigger difference is that the Chinese have a formal structure - now maybe they have a formal structure because of those differences but the structure itself changes the outcomes.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @Nix64261997
If you're getting paid a cut from a factory that you "own" as a CCP official you want the factory to still exist. If you're an American official you get a slice of holiness and power by destroying the factory and you can't collect a slice of the profits if you let it survive
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This difference is due to the difference between Chinese and Americans. Chinese worship money, hence they develop a profit-driven system. Americans are white, the spiritual race and hence develop a spirituality-driven system.
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White people are perfectly capable of building systems that function by motivating people to cooperate for profit and have done so in the past. Don't have to go too far in the past to see Chinese cooperating based on spiritual / holiness systems - look at the Cultural Revolution
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