As if the default state of humankind is a glorious freedom to do whatever we like, interrupted by red tape regulation getting in the way of that glorious free adventure.
It’s literally the opposite of what’s actually going on. /7
It’s literally the opposite of what’s actually going on. /7
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Only teenagers see rules as oppression. And we have an entire culture now that is adolescent. /8
Vested interests are driving it, but they’re not imposing it on us. Our entire adolescent culture cheers it on. /9
It’s an argument real conservatives carried forward. /10
They’re a team in the team sports culture that is now our lives. Desperately trying to be the highest status team of all. /11
Not an analogy. In the absence of institutions, all societies are feudal monarchies. /12
As Turchin says, we have ‘elite overproduction’, there are too many of them, with too much power and wealth. /13