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18 Sep, 9 tweets, 2 min read
The reason architecture, the arts, etc collapse between 1914 and 1945 is the obvious one: the people who built things like that lost the wars. Even on the "victorious" side, the people who won were the factional enemies of this aesthetic.
The reason everyone is confused about this is that it isn't polite to admit that the wars were actually a disaster.
Besides the arts, see also: lost accents, food knowledge, medical knowledge, scientific norms, education, etc.

The institutions that survived the wars were the (often deliberately) crappy wartime starvation version of EVERYTHING.
The social changes needed to win total war were, well, total. We had to empower a particular kind of beauty-blind psychopathic calculator who tore up beautiful old customs for scrap material to feed the war machine.
The people who thought like that came with insane antihuman ideology. Once you empower those people over everyone else, there's no coming back. Everything is gone and rebuilding it takes time and freedom that no longer exists in the postwar new world order.
People wonder when the collapse is going to happen. It already did. 1914-1945. We're living in the ruins and nobody wants to remember.
Fortunately not everything went away. We've continued to have amazing progress in computing, aerospace, mathematics, and other war-machine fields, and in ideological backlash against the industrial war machine (post-industrial ideology). There's some good stuff there.
Think you can win a war by selling your soul? You can't. You just ensure that whatever wins isn't you anymore, even if it wears your skin.

As war is ultimately of God, I can't say that all war is a portal to hell, but those ones sure were.
We didn't win the wars. They weren't zero sum. They were severely negative sum. We lost the wars, too.

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19 Jun
Why America needs immigrants to survive:

because America is a dysfunctional vampire-state that destructively consumes human capital.

We've been limping along on prewar central European fumes for decades. At some point, we run out.
People act there there is some infinite pile of high-quality human capital overseas, and we can just plunder it indefinitely. It doesn't work like that. At some point, you have to get good at generating human capital.

America has never been good at this.
Human capital generation looks like free independent productive subcultures sharpening themselves over generations.

Instead, we aggressively converge everything into the monoculture, shuffle off the high-quality people into Harvard, and apply their efforts to nonsense. Few kids.
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19 Apr
Imagine the pyramids when new. Polished megalithic temples far beyond anything's else. Obviously built by the gods, who rule directly from the big house and have magical powers to make the water flow and the sun shine.

The cosmological implications would be all-encompassing.
We no longer see things the way people did in the bronze age, but imagine actually living then and being faced with what they were faced with. You would have almost no choice but to see things as they did.
The priesthoods probably had secret technology far beyond that mundanely available, and marketed as the power of the gods rather than as mundane techne. For example: it's possible they had electric batteries, intricate machines, could predict eclipses, floods.
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7 Apr
Our recent article from @SamoBurja proposed that the industrial revolution was socially incomplete, but destroyed it's pre-industrial foundations, so post-industrial society isn't going to be able to just go back automatically. This poses a big problem of development strategy.
The obvious implication is that we have to complete the industrial revolution by extending or supplementing the industrial logic to a full stack of social technologies, especially in the currently failing family life patterns and human capital creation areas.
What does that completion actually look like? What if it does look a bit like going back? Deliberately rebuild the pre-industrial foundations alongside industry. Not something wholly new, but a novel stabilization of industrial alongside pre-industrial social tech.
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6 Apr
My wife made me some prototype trousers. Relaxed fit in seat and legs, high waist that actually fits, tapered down to compact ankle, nice deep pockets. Extremely luxurious. You can't buy this.
The era of low-"waist" slim fit trousers that still get caught in your bike chain and assume you have a beer gut and no muscle must be brought to a close by any means necessary.
Ever done a full squat with proper form and normal muscle development in a pair of luxury trousers? Now you can.
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29 Mar
What shocks me is how few people there are doing or even checking fundamental work. Half of modern manufacturing management comes from two guys trained in imperial japan. Wings are designed with assumptions cooked up by Prandtl, that even he later realized were wrong.
Works like this everywhere. Science, philosophy, life. Someone comes up with an idea, usually just sitting down and thinking about it for a bit drawing on their experience, and then everyone else takes it as gospel for the next 100 years.
We don't even independently reproduce these core results, even when they are just calculations or arguments. We build billion dollar empires on flawed assumptions that could be checked for thousands of dollars. It's hard to tell what to check, but surely we should check more.
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28 Mar
Global trade logistics means local economic sovereignty can be easily dismantled.

Global nuclear and naval strike capability means military sovereignty can be easily dismantled.

Global internet/communication means local moral sovereignty can be easily dismantled.
Prepare yourself for global government. It's inevitable as far as I can tell. Some positives and some negatives.
Among the negatives: we have no theory, experience, or institutions for global government. It might have intractable scale/abstraction problems. It removes all natural constraints on insanity and lazyness.
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