To Type 1, it's a weighty privilege, and an honor. "If we ourselves do not follow the laws, how can we expect others to enforce them?" 2/
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Then there's Type 2. Does as it pleases & pays lip service to the Honor Culture of their Type 1 ancestors. This is how a dynasties end. 3/
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Under a Type 1, laws are (if not wholly just) deterministic & impartial, and people don't usually make a fuss about the imperfections. 4/
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Type 2 can't help but flagrantly conflate social class with actual legal rights, and give each other special treatment under the law. 5/
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A hallmark of a strong Type 1 is that they punish their own violations MORE severely than identical infractions among the lower classes. 6/
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A hallmark of a rotting Type 2 is stuff like the above. Such blatant dual standards break the illusion of a "rule of law" society. 7/
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@eli_schiff Most recently, the aristocrats Keynes grew up around. Greece for a bit; Rome for a bit; Japan (seems now slipping toward 2)@vgr1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@eli_schiff Basically any civilization that ever amounted to anything in the world, was at its peak a country with a Type 1 noble class@vgr1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@eli_schiff Variations on "Republics" seem most resistant to this downward slide, among the classifications of govs we use@vgr4 replies 0 retweets 1 like
@CTZN5 @eli_schiff I'm skeptical that any particular type of government is more likely to produce type 1s. Some just contain type 2s better.
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