Our chattering classes aren't eating the cultural seed corn - they're throwing it in a septic tank and laughing bc it makes their enemies mad. Famine is coming.
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the army analogy makes perfect sense tell me: if every soldier disappeared today, and you were king, how would you reconstitute an army? You'd hire 500,000 soldiers ... and now what? There are insane amounts of social norms, processes, etc you have to regeenerate. You have to
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build the technology of recruiting, measuring, training, promoting, dealing with conflicts. You have to build and teach myths and norms. You have to create songs and traditions and the concept of honor. That's social capital.
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I got it, fwiw. Did appreciate the clarification, though- I got the gist of the original tweet, but not so clearly as to make further clarification redundant.
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