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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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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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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Anyway I'm not optimistic about the future of the West
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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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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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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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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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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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Yes but it's not particularly replicated I think?
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