HeyJaredGregory Treat
Great Houses, multi-generational, business owning, succession oriented, households are the Pillars of Civilization. If we want to rebuild Civilization we must start by building up (and not tearing down) our pillars. Long live the Great Houses!
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Build Households, Not Monasteries (opens the original)
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Technologies that Bridge the Gaps Between Domains (opens the original)
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As we grapple with AI, and with the vast variety of industries it will affect, the hard question is not whether this new tool will have vast society-altering impact: It will. Nor is the question whether AI will create a permanent underclass or dystopia. It will not. As I have argued previously, any such underclass or dystopia will last only so long as our society refuses to admit that our political structures must be updated to match the incredible and, in the main, incredibly positive technolog
The Modern Tower of Babel (opens the original)
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I. You live in the Tower of BabelWe started this substack with an image of a city on pillars. That is the vision of the idealized Western polis, with multiple economic pillars, supporting a broad level playing field, the marketplaces for deals and ideals, and a thin transparent dome of the state sheltering us from the elements. So that is the image that we want to get to, the cosmology of our ideal world.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!g
Why do we Purity Spiral? (opens the original)
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I. Books or Walls?I am the father of several small children, and one of their favorite movies is The Secret of Kells. Its hero is a boy named Brendan, a young novice at the Abbey of Kells, orphaned as an infant in a Viking raid that killed his parents. He is raised by his uncle, the Abbot Cellach, who spends his days furiously building a wall around everything that he has left.The inciting incident is the arrival of Brother Aidan, a refugee from Iona, carrying an unfinished illuminated manuscrip
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