Culture War in China: A totalitarian approach to a cultural problem

[jabowery]

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Here’s my question - can there be a libertarian solution to this cultural problem?

Not so long as libertarian philosophy remains unhinged from evolutionary theory:

Critical Points In The Evolution of Individuality

This graph has been in the back of my mind for a long time. The thing that finally made me sit down and get it done is Henrich’s specious myopia in “The WEIRDest People in the World”. There is a lot to flesh out here but “individualism” isn’t just some “cultural construct”. [image] In order from most myopic to most farsighted: Clark basically conflates genes for private sector rent-seeking with genes for individualism but he at least shifts the Overton Window such that fans of Ayn Rand who…