How the Long-Gone Habsburg Empire Is Still Visible in Eastern European Bureaucracies Today
People tend to think an institution will endure just because it has so far. It’s hundreds of years old and blah, blah, blah. But I don’t think many institutions that predated the internet will easily survive the internet. These inherited institutions are incompetent and increasingly considered less legitimate. There’s a loss of faith in banks.
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One possible exception is if a culture can evolve sufficient distaste for stagnation and gerontocratic vampirism that it resists this structural pull.
America "forking" away from OG anglo culture bc of hard frontier/growth mindset *may* be exceptionalism in this regard.
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