Truths
- One source of truth enhances organization
- One leader who is the strongest above all prevents group infighting
- Only one pattern of ideas exists at the top level so long as people do not tolerate diversity and dissent. This is a contradiction but it explains the nature of
There must be only one source of passwords or difficulty in action arises due to not knowing which password is where. So not multiple Bitwarden, KeepassXC files, some saved in iCloud, and some saved in Google.
Likewise, there also should only be one source of writing. If I have a bunch of writing here in my blog, then some others in another folder, another set in Notion and the final in Obsidian, then I will not be able to search for things properly.
In a business, only one CRM or ERP should be used. And indeed, I am inclined to believe only one government or one God. Pliny the Elder writes that polytheism kept people away from true virtue. Whenever they needed something, they would just find another God to pray to.
The risks of one brain are that if the source gets destroyed, everything falls apart. The risk of multiple brains at the same level is infighting. Although the USA has two parties, or Germany has multiple parties, in reality there is a uniparty because otherwise it is impossible to govern.
They simply represent slightly differing modalities. AfD and Trumpism are something completely different. They are a top-level pattern of ideas and people too different to be accepted.
Solutions include making backups of your files and a recursive nature to human organization. There is a Supreme Court, state courts, and then local courts. There is the Federal Reserve and then the 12 regional banks. According to kamilkazani, there is the fractal nature of the 15 USSR Union Republics.
Ideally what happens is that in the failure of any top-most level, the bottom levels are still functioning so one of them takes over in time. Though there are human organizations that are recursive, the actual structure of life itself within a State is not a recursive structure. This is key to understanding the fertility rate decline and puts the entire system at risk for it is composed of humans itself.
People don’t raise money from their neighborhoods, then their cities, then their state, and so on. The tentacles of the interstate have made their way into every city so that there is mobility and decay everywhere, meaning no place can build walls and become a people outside of a few good neighborhoods. And I think most people don’t get it either, what it means to be a community and what it means to be a people rather than a populace.
Only one organization can have top-most level sovereignity. Given lack of external actors and unlimited time, one will unify. Ibn Khaldun says that it comes from nomads with group feeling. That makes sense because he saw states taken over by Arab nomads. Carroll Quigley notes that it comes from peripheral states. But if you look at Russia’s recent attacks, it stands in the center. So it is not a hard rule, only that fighting in a corner (boxing) or having your back against a wall (like military people sit against walls in restaurants rather than facing backwards) makes it easier to fight.
Qin had mountains in the West and was able to launch attacks from relative security. Had England not balanced Continential Europe, it likely would’ve unified into a French or German super-state.
Given how states in the US are so similar these days due to transportation, I feel the United “State” of America is apropos as a name.