After a bad breakup, I remember quipping to a friend who asked what I had learned from the experience: "Insecure attachment."
It was interesting to try and work through that over the years. It got better, but only after two years of frankly erratic behavior. I was hurting badly.
Ultimately I think I came out stronger. I appreciate the maturity, but not how I got there. I jokingly compared it to a different friend to learning to meditate in a full body cast. You might think meditation is useful, but no you aren't grateful to the truck.
What I still don't understand is why that particular heartbreak and not others. Unpredictable.

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24 Mar
Every civilization is driven by a core stack of social technologies. When this social tech fails, so does the civilization.

The Industrial Revolution is the current core of our society. And it is failing.

My new article in @palladiummag. Read here:
palladiummag.com/2021/03/24/the…


Contemporary Western societies are often described as “post-industrial”, as if we have progressed past the need for factories and assembly lines

We liberally borrow the name of the Industrial Revolution & apply it to ourselves in a sort of stolen valor
Factories are obsolete signs of backwardness; yet we lament China’s rise, built upon those same factories.

These contradictory attitudes reveal our idea of “post-industrial” society to be more wish fulfillment than impartial reality.
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7 Mar
geriwalton.com/voltaires-coff…

Worth reading this post on Voltaire and Coffee. One of my pet theories is that societies tend to morph when exposed to new drugs.

1/n
After a period of adaptation a culture becomes resistant to the social effects of a drug. All remaining organizations and ideologies become resistant to whatever noise that drug introduced into their system.

2/n
An analogy can be made to antibiotic resistant bacteria. Chinese and Mediterranean society grew wine-proof by the Iron Age. Coffee had a rampage in the 18th century. Hard liquor was still giving the Russians and Irish severe social problems in the 19th century.

3/n
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6 Mar
Western society has nearly completely lost the infrastructure that could support complex thinking.
To dig into the relevant infrastructure:

1. A culture open to voicing accurate observations about itself. Every capable thinker voices these early in life before they learn better, if this disqualifies them, the culture cannot support original thinkers.
2. Viable economic niches. Academia is much too contested. Silicon Valley allows for some original thinking, but the thinking isn't what provides returns.
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5 Mar
Great reading list! Some of the more eclectic tastes on Twitter. Highly recommend following @miltonwrites for his threads if you yourself don’t read as many books as you should!

Few would know to dive into material like Project Cybersyn. Truly fascinating history.

It’s also always worth reading old books, not just for the information within them, but to absorb something of the mindset and worldview of people long gone. It is its own kind of information.

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22 Feb
Intellectual history is rewritten every time there is a significant shift in political and economic power.

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Voltaire and other 18th century writers took it upon themselves to rewrite recent scientific history. They elevated Galileo and Newton while downplaying the credit both of these thinkers gave to Hellenistic predecessors.

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Rather than triumphant adherents of a revived tradition of knowledge, Galileo and Newton's breakthroughs were recast as triumphs of pure individual reason.

They of course are also such triumphs, but Newton had good reason to insist he stood on the shoulders of giants.

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5 Feb
Ancient Rome is correctly noted for its production of highly skilled individuals. But despite no shortage of talent, they often struggled with transferring power to these leaders.

Their surprising solution was the practice of adult adoption

samoburja.com/how-roman-empe…

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I have noted before the paramount importance of the succession problem when it comes to institutional functionality.

Great founders build great institutions, but when founders die or retire, they need to find and install a worthy successor:

samoburja.com/the-succession…

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The succession problem has two components: skill succession and power succession.

A successor must be sufficiently skilled to pilot the institution they will lead. They must also have enough power to actually lead it.

Succession can fail on either or even both.

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