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Freedom matters for resilience because crisis survival requires leaders and populations to make collective sacrifices, while opaque systems risk selfish leadership decisions and public refusal to sacrifice.
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Freedom matters for resilience because crisis survival requires leaders and populations to make collective sacrifices, while opaque systems risk selfish leadership decisions and public refusal to sacrifice.
The American mixed regime lets local republican democracy coexist with national monarchical action through the president, while Senate approval checks favoritism in appointments.
Science today is compared to China's imperial bureaucracy: above nations and governments, self-promoting, under-accountable, and prone to lazy, greedy waste.
"...when there's very little freedom, meaning there's very little transparency and accountability, where the public don't have access to the leadership, then the leadership..."
"...must vet everyone. And the idea of this is to create accountability and transparency within government. Okay? So, Hamilton explains this. To what purpose,..."
"...science doing? Science is promoting its own bureaucracy. If there's no accountability, if there's no responsibility, if scientists don't actually have to tell us..."
"...second problem, over -specialization. The third problem is the idea of accountability. Okay? How do you know if each department is doing a good..."
Fukuyama's end of history becomes, in this lecture, a temporary American spell: Pax Americana, science-priesthood, and dollar worship.
America begins here as a cure for civilization: a clean-slate game built from Enlightenment rights, self-help, property, and fair rules.
Science begins here as a theological discipline of doubt.
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