... where, as in any other market, catallactic forces of spontaneous order will inevitably overwhelm and shape programming.
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... On a side note, it's intriguing that Peter Thiel's model of the business hero is Carlylean / Moldbuggian in style. ...
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... (3) Also essential to all this: MM is a
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... He's good at it. (Even persuaded me that there's kinda sorta a reading of Divine Right Sovereignty that's defensible.) .
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... But it's trolling. There's no case made for a sovereign monarch at UR (it's an idiot trap, and caught many idiots). ...
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... On another side-note, you know how many English pubs were called "The Prussian King" in late 18th century? ...
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... Frederick II was England's key ally during the Seven Years War (when the global Anglosphere was built). ...
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... The war laid the foundations of Anglobal Hegemony, cost in total less casualties than any one of Frederick's battles. ..
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... But still, you're entirely right, even if adopted as an honorary Anglo, Frederick II wasn't one. And ironically ...
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... on the intellectual level, that's because he was indebted to the French (rather than Scottish) Enlightenment. ...
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... He was the definitive 'Enlightened Despot' -- which makes the pop view of NRx as an anti-enlightenment ideology bizarre.
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... Enlightenment problem (Rousseauist depravity aside) was precisely its over-confidence in deliberated rationality ...
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... i.e. everything the Scottish Enlightenment fixed. MM is altogether too continental in this regard. ...
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