On instrumental rationality
The sociological classic Max Weber used the term instrumental rational action to refer to those actions that lead in the most direct way to the intended goal. As opposed to…
Where the billionaires will belong
There are so few billionaires (crown billionaires in the Czech Republic, dollar billionaires in America) that they cannot form a separate social class with its own world view, values, lifestyle,…
On optimistic uncertainty
Breached Enclosure and my other books that follow it describe a world in which the ruling class is a new aristocracy (Curtis Yarvin uses the term “liberal oligarchy” and others…
Return of the factory owners
From a reader’s letter “Aren’t judges supposed to be wise if we understand wisdom as education tested by life experience? The law is a codification of the universally abstract and…
End of ascetism
Asceticism has always been a significant element of social life. It’s not that one has to be modest about something, but that it has to be ostentatious. Everybody has to…
Just a normal revolution
Everywhere there is talk of a Trump revolution and I get legitimate objections as to what kind of revolution it is where billionaires play a key role. What is this…