Not picking on pg in particular here; just pointing out the incompleteness of all “civil” discourse models that uncritically assume the legitimacy of the institutions within which they operate
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anyway one of the assertions goes like "systems evolve to perpetuate themselves"
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That’s one of those really widespread intuitions that lacks a pithy canonical meme form. I like Pournelle’s Law version best.

