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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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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Yeah, but that's basically a reductio absurdum example, because that's not going to happen.
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Happened 1776-1792. Newly declared USA didn’t have a military per se but did have lots of armed residents. Seeing the problems with a standing army vs the generally able populace as “unorganized militia”, the Founders set up a cultural norm of army + organized militia + 2ndA.
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