iii) the catholic church died at the council of Trent iv) tyranny is much more common in history than I had usually considered, and much more transient v) important trends often play out tectonically, and are mostly not visible in a year or decade of a person's life
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vi) ideas matter and everyone seems to have forgotten this today and thats some weak shit vii) the tenor and temperament of individuals and collectives matter and people seem to not believe this today viii) neither (vi) nor (vii) are easily quantified which maybe explains a lot
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ix) some things I would like seeing: a. a rereading of history after we get a functioning science of psychology b. a rereading of history by digging up and dating every corpse in the world and sequencing them and tracking mental phenotype flows c. (b) but with geneology
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x) sciences and technology people are not ready for a. genomics b. a functioning psychology c. ML systems taking advantage of (b)
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xi) looping back to (vi) no one is coming up with new ideas its just rewarmed b-tier ideologies or slovenly unrationalized materialism this is a failure of the ideological class no one is even pitching Good bad ideas
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anyway these are my recent learnings back to brain book
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oh right closing with a poll, related to this tweet https://twitter.com/CIgnitio/status/1260100940956401664?s=19 …
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what is the probability that at least one European great family (Habsburg, Bourbon, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha / Wettin, Romanov, Merovingian, etc) takes control of a sovereign state in their former territory in a substantial, ie non-symbolic, manner before 2100
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Maybe Otto H coulda done it, had he wanted to, but looking at his grandkids, the Habsburgs ain't going anywhere. The majesty has fled. Louie Bourbon, maybe -- he has the jaw for it, at least.
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current Spanish king has a chance, he's bourbon think the main avenues would be (i) breakaway group using one as a legitimizing factor, (ii) existing king seeing power returned directly in a crisis
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Does the Spanish king not already qualify? He's the sovereign of Spain, right? Or is that not sufficiently hereditary territory? But yeah, I think those are both unlikely but realistic possibilities, and would be better than most likely outcomes lol
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he's still basically symbolic rather than having any _potestas_
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