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    1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 4 Sep 2019

      So whats the situation now Brussels considers a request to postpone brexit and if they refuse its hard brexit Does Boris get to make the request can he just do a really shit job of it so they say "no" Don't quite understand what parliament thinks its gonna accomplish (?)

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    2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 4 Sep 2019

      Was listening to Durant talking about medieval englands political institutions Idk fam seems like theyve fallen a long long way You know they used to oblige /everyone/ or at least the men to train at arm's Now its all "eek knives"

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    3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 4 Sep 2019

      I dont believe any modern country actually appreciates what it took to make good institutions People in countries that have them were basically just born into them and dont reverence them as social Magic as they used to This is spooky Something something saeculum

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    4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 4 Sep 2019

      Partly this manifested in the insane tabula rasa nation building of the 90s/00s We learned the lesson that you cant just foist good political institutions on a country with shit social institutions but the corollary that political institutions go to shit when society decays? Naw

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    5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 4 Sep 2019

      Anyway I'm not optimistic about the future of the West

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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 4 Sep 2019

      It's really tricky. Major challenges: 1. Accurately understanding what makes institutions strong 2. Updating (1) and institutions as circumstances change 3. Conveying (1-2) to new generations who don't have direct experience with rationale behind institutions

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        2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 4 Sep 2019

          Over the last hundred fiftyish "circumstances" have been changing at an unprecedented pace You might be able to grapple with this using meta-robust institutions and to some extent I think we've managed that But we're screwing the pooch on (1) and (3) I reckon

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        3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 4 Sep 2019

          Burke talking about society as a continuously transmitted institution between old, young, past, and future is probably instructive Seems especially like the social break with the Boomers and generational identity (falling out of generational separation?) is ruinous, today

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        4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 4 Sep 2019

          Similarly, and once more Burkean, excessive zeal for reform and denying evening the existence of Chesterton fences seems quite prominent There are ways to adapt rather than break societies but no one seems interested in these (because why?)

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        5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 4 Sep 2019

          Gay marriage is a very good case study We were pretty shit to gay people for a very long time "Let them get married and be boring and wholly integrated" was (per Sullivan and others) probably the best way to handle this from a conservationist standpoint

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        6. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 4 Sep 2019

          You could probably manage similar programs for (eg) immigrants, trans people, and so on Get people to buy into the system instead of having no recourse but to break it This seems like perhaps a missed opportunity for the right

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        7. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 4 Sep 2019

          Also for the right, ceding schools and colleges was probably a terrible dire mistake Fighting battles over sex ed and evolution (remember that?) was a terrible terrible idea Shoulda held firm on social studies and classics curricula Welp

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        8. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 4 Sep 2019

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          Anyway I have to work today but forget the benedict option maybe consider instead the Asimov Option You want to build a new society best to think generationally I guesshttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1169392677491593217?s=19 …

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          I think about this a lot Hypernatalist smartypants Slack for coordination when https://twitter.com/halvorz/status/1169391152526712832 …
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