Gato wrote about this in the past but under another frame. The golden rule.
"whether it was luck or intelligence or provenance or predestination, somehow in the west we happened to find a tenet around "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" emergent from judeo-christian tradition and (perhaps vitally) rarified by protestant re…
Gato wrote about this in the past but under another frame. The golden rule.
"whether it was luck or intelligence or provenance or predestination, somehow in the west we happened to find a tenet around "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" emergent from judeo-christian tradition and (perhaps vitally) rarified by protestant reformation. it seems a prosaic and obvious thing, but as an idea it was astonishingly revolutionary and remains to this day vanishingly rare in most of the world. many languages do not even have words for the concept."
"the enlightenment and the industrial revolution were offshoots of christianity. it's why it happened in the west and nowhere else except as awkward imitation and why so much of the rest of the world remains unable to emulate these economic and social miracles and resorts to large scale family metaphors (kiretsu, chaebol, etc) to try to circumvent this lack of basic trust. (or simply cannot manage it at all)
I shared this on another Gato Stack last month, applies here, too, even more.
This interesting AP article from 1958 here. It was then, is now, always will be about "efficiency." And as long as it's "more efficient" for the economic engine the social engineers will keep engineering a "more efficient" economy. But in their relentless pursuit of efficiency they grow fonder and fonder of their centrally planned "efficient" economies. Often ignoring that there's more to the American economy, innovation, dynamism than can be measured by metrics of efficiency. They deem those intangibles and unmeasurables "inefficient freedom."
This AP article describes wonderfully "efficient" central-planned totalitarianism is. This was at the height of the Cold War. From the side of freedom? Note that the World Trade Association conference was held in San Francisco, not far from Silicon Valley. Coincidence?
‘Damned Efficient Slavery’ vs. ‘Inefficient Freedom’
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)
Communism is mounting an attack upon the western world with economic weapons, Sir David Eccles, president of the Board of Trade of the United Kingdom, declared yesterday.
He said that while the western nations are pooling their military resources against any war arising from the Soviet Union, “not enough attention has been given to pooling our economic resources, either for the expansion of trade between ourselves, or for meeting the economic offensive that is coming from the Sino-Soviet bloc.”
Sir David, member of the British cabinet, addressed members of the British-American Chamber of Commerce and Trade Centre, the San Francisco World Trade Association and the World Affairs Council of Northern California.
Because the Soviets mobilize and direct all their economic resources from one centre, he said, they have a great advantage.
“Vice-President Nixon called the Russian system slavery. All right, slavery it is. But damned efficient slavery.
“The west, on the other hand, is fragmented into sovereign states, as often as not pursuing rival economic policies.
“We lack imaginative plans for expansion of the free world’s wealth. Indeed, we go our own sweet ways protecting our domestic industries to the detriment of those of our closest allies, trying to block each other’s trade when we should be collaborating for raising standards of life.
“We cherish our freedom. All right, freedom it is, but sadly inefficient freedom.”
FF - Note: The Soviet Union was defeated by the economic might of a free market, innovation that outproduced the central-planned economy of the USSR. Those intangibles and unmeasurables they call "inefficient freedom" is the secret sauce. But because they can't see it they choose to import cheap, obedient labor that measures high on the efficiency scale. "Experts" placed in charge of an economy and workforce immigration overlook the inherent, and necessary value of "inefficient freedom." Only able to see the measurables of "efficient slavery."
Related political cartoon from The Chicago Tribune, 1934:
Gato wrote about this in the past but under another frame. The golden rule.
"whether it was luck or intelligence or provenance or predestination, somehow in the west we happened to find a tenet around "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" emergent from judeo-christian tradition and (perhaps vitally) rarified by protestant reformation. it seems a prosaic and obvious thing, but as an idea it was astonishingly revolutionary and remains to this day vanishingly rare in most of the world. many languages do not even have words for the concept."
"the enlightenment and the industrial revolution were offshoots of christianity. it's why it happened in the west and nowhere else except as awkward imitation and why so much of the rest of the world remains unable to emulate these economic and social miracles and resorts to large scale family metaphors (kiretsu, chaebol, etc) to try to circumvent this lack of basic trust. (or simply cannot manage it at all)
no golden rule, no golden age."
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/golden-rules-and-golden-ages
I shared this on another Gato Stack last month, applies here, too, even more.
This interesting AP article from 1958 here. It was then, is now, always will be about "efficiency." And as long as it's "more efficient" for the economic engine the social engineers will keep engineering a "more efficient" economy. But in their relentless pursuit of efficiency they grow fonder and fonder of their centrally planned "efficient" economies. Often ignoring that there's more to the American economy, innovation, dynamism than can be measured by metrics of efficiency. They deem those intangibles and unmeasurables "inefficient freedom."
This AP article describes wonderfully "efficient" central-planned totalitarianism is. This was at the height of the Cold War. From the side of freedom? Note that the World Trade Association conference was held in San Francisco, not far from Silicon Valley. Coincidence?
https://archive.org/details/dailycolonist0158uvic_1/mode/2up?view=theater
The Daily Colonist
Victoria Island's Leading Newspaper Since 1858
January 4th, 1958
‘Damned Efficient Slavery’ vs. ‘Inefficient Freedom’
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)
Communism is mounting an attack upon the western world with economic weapons, Sir David Eccles, president of the Board of Trade of the United Kingdom, declared yesterday.
He said that while the western nations are pooling their military resources against any war arising from the Soviet Union, “not enough attention has been given to pooling our economic resources, either for the expansion of trade between ourselves, or for meeting the economic offensive that is coming from the Sino-Soviet bloc.”
Sir David, member of the British cabinet, addressed members of the British-American Chamber of Commerce and Trade Centre, the San Francisco World Trade Association and the World Affairs Council of Northern California.
Because the Soviets mobilize and direct all their economic resources from one centre, he said, they have a great advantage.
“Vice-President Nixon called the Russian system slavery. All right, slavery it is. But damned efficient slavery.
“The west, on the other hand, is fragmented into sovereign states, as often as not pursuing rival economic policies.
“We lack imaginative plans for expansion of the free world’s wealth. Indeed, we go our own sweet ways protecting our domestic industries to the detriment of those of our closest allies, trying to block each other’s trade when we should be collaborating for raising standards of life.
“We cherish our freedom. All right, freedom it is, but sadly inefficient freedom.”
FF - Note: The Soviet Union was defeated by the economic might of a free market, innovation that outproduced the central-planned economy of the USSR. Those intangibles and unmeasurables they call "inefficient freedom" is the secret sauce. But because they can't see it they choose to import cheap, obedient labor that measures high on the efficiency scale. "Experts" placed in charge of an economy and workforce immigration overlook the inherent, and necessary value of "inefficient freedom." Only able to see the measurables of "efficient slavery."
Related political cartoon from The Chicago Tribune, 1934:
https://i.imgflip.com/9f3zln.jpg
Question: Judaism does not have this? I don't know the answer, just asking the question.