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Jeremy Carl: The Three Eras of State and Technology

From the New World

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The Paradox of Chesterton Spence

The paradox of Chesterton Spence is a notion that he brings out of social institutions. He argues the only circumstance under which you should take it down is if you know exactly why it was put up there. And when we approach those sorts of institutions with that type of modesty, then we tend to make better rationalist decisions by abandoning this notion of pure rationalism.

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