A Disney World
"Walt Disney wanted to be frozen," Bob Nelson says, as casually as if he were talking about municipal bonds. "Lots of people think that he was, »
Entryism as Exploited Containment Failure Between Subcultures
The post on boundaries was something of a standalone theory prerequisite for a discussion of how subcultures need walls, and what form those walls take. I’ »
Importance of Boundaries
If you introduce a chemical (eg penicillin) that attacks the ability of bacteria to form cell walls, they lose their cell walls. This kills the bacteria. »
The Circle of Equity
I want to introduce the central concept of Ottoman political theory I first found reading Norman Itzowitz’s book Ottoman Empire and Islamic Tradition. The Circle »
Hacking Technological Determinism for Fun and Profit
I’ve recently encountered and more fully grokked some ideas that invalidate my previous understanding of how to achieve political ends. To start with, I saw »
Material and Social Technologies
What causes ascents and collapses? What if the West is in fact in decline in some important indicator? Low interest rates means its hard to find »
Functional Institutions Are The Exception
Every great company is unique, but there are a few things that every business must get right at the beginning . I stress this so often that »
Conquest’s Second Law
Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing. -John Derbyshire, Conquest’s Laws I have thought about this question on and off, for the »