Im awake now here are some reactions elaborated rather than just yelling about Moldbug needing an editor
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1. No seriously he needs an editor, this is awful writing and hes flanderized his prose. Im fine with affected shticks Obviously but this has crossed the threshold from indulgent fun and playful flair to actively harming his transmission of ideas and maybe his thought process too
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2. I hate frameworks like this. I mentioned Sims earlier, tldr this is reminiscent of old style macroeconomic models that split the economy into sectors and had elaborate flows between them and-- i dont think you get deeper understanding from this level of granularity
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Rather than setting this up as a rube goldberg model system with a bunch of weird impenetrable names and trying to force markets in prestige to clear he could have just said "here are efficient and dignified institutions, here are summaries of their nature and power"
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3. I think one thing that comes out of that kind of exercise is that the resulting essay is not as titillating because in a lot of ways everyone already can see that bureaucracies and quangos are entrenched, powerful, and nondemocratic
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Like, Eisenhower named the military-industrial complex in what, '61? The players have drifted but these sorts of extra-governmental power centers are an inevitable feature of government of any variety
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4. So maybe Moldbug does us a service by noting that the upper middle class has a stranglehold on many of these institutions but I don't know that that's especially news either, I mean that's just the story of Trump's Deplorable Rebellion right?
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Replying to @eigenrobot
Its definitely way too wordy but the central thrust is on point - the system has myriad ways to drain energy and neutralize any threat posed from within (elections) so that energy must go to building something from without instead
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But doesn't this take ignore all the change that *has* occurred working within the system? Emancipation of slaves, women's suffrage, setting a term limit for the president, social security, black civil rights, all kinds of regulation...why is all that getting ignored?
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Second question: what the fuck has ever been accomplished working outside the system?
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