The Fourth Quadrant « Isegoriahttp://www.isegoria.net/2008/09/the-fourth-quadrant/
their ability to drive people & companies to “efficiency” (to please a stock analyst’s earnings target) against risks of extreme events. Indeed some systems tend t
Three Types of Civilized Societies « Isegoriahttp://www.isegoria.net/2008/05/three-types-of-civilized-societies/
thoughts in the German people. I think of this term every time I see a “public service message.” We also see the type 1 pattern, if not quite as distinctly, in the Com
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it would be replaced by people hostile to us. Even it has repeatedly voted to demand we and the Turks leave. And no one in Iraq, other than the Kurdish radicals recognizes the leg
American policy makers do not read books « Isegoriahttp://www.isegoria.net/2015/03/american-policy-makers-do-not-read-books/
current affairs most people charged with crafting American strategy do not have the time to read very many real books. The knowledge they gain from what they read during their pol
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nearby forests). Most people take this as a conservative victory. It is actually a defeat. It is a victory in the ordinary sense of the term — an action which gets what the actors
Mencius Moldbug on the Obama prize « Isegoriahttp://www.isegoria.net/2009/10/mencius-moldbug-on-the-obama-prize/
progressives, are the people in the world who adore Obama the least. Normally it is advantageous, for continuity purposes, that Europeans love Obama. But it is not advantageous th
Sarah Palin: The Proletarian Candidate « Isegoriahttp://www.isegoria.net/2008/09/sarah-palin-the-proletarian-candidate/
only be sustained by people who either (a) have no idea what Washington is or how it works, or (b) do, but conceal it for their own political benefit. Collectively these individua
The Cathedral is not mentioned in the Constitution « Isegoriahttp://www.isegoria.net/2008/06/the-cathedral-is-not-mentioned-in-the-constitution/
most fashionable people, and since it holds power and power is always fashionable, Cathedrism is fashionable more or less by definition. Of course, if you were fashionable, you kn
Bureaucratic Sclerosis « Isegoriahttp://www.isegoria.net/2008/07/bureaucratic-sclerosis/
It is because a lot of people have succeeded in making work for themselves, and that work has been spread wide and well. They are thriving off tiny pinhole leaks through which pow
Science has been running an experiment on itself « Isegoriahttp://www.isegoria.net/2022/12/science-has-been-running-an-experiment-on-itself/
go to conferences where people give talks about unvetted projects, and we do not turn to each other and say, “So interesting! I can’t wait for it to be peer reviewed so I can find
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terrains, and people differ in America's small towns and sometimes unusual events well up from inside or break in from outside, altering the form of things. For Scottsville,
You should try practice, then theory « Isegoriahttp://www.isegoria.net/2018/06/you-should-try-practice-then-theory/
education, is you send people, you make people work as nurses and then they go to medical school. Effectively, I spoke to a lot of doctors, and they think it’s a good idea because
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