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Agreement Was Never the Input
Every durable institution is a prosthesis for a virtue the population does not have. Which means the demand to become mature enough to agree, before we build anything, has the causality backwards.
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Essays
Long-form arguments that took more than one sitting to make.
Each one starts from a question I could not answer quickly, sets a condition under which the argument would fail, and then runs it against the record. Where it lost, the piece says so and shows the working. The shorter, faster writing lives on the blog. This is the shelf for the ones that needed the room.