Nurture probably plays a stronger role than nature here, yep. For CCP cadres, signaling rationality is probably a no-brainer against the ever-present threat of

Nurture probably plays a stronger role than nature here, yep. For CCP cadres, signaling rationality is probably a no-brainer against the ever-present threat of populism, but they are also not going to do anything that are going to make peasants wonder about the mandate of heaven at an inconvenient time (e.g. demolishing shrines) >being possessed by a fox as a way to move up in the world. Pretending to be possessed, this is a populist, and should I say, traditional move, agreed (Ntheless, you might be surprised how (privately) superstitious the urban elite (of the SES, not the intellect) in the Greater Bay of China are, just as how publicly superstitious many stay-at-home moms are in the US?) But let's move on the idea of property insurance, generalized to the intellectual sort :) good patch for Szilards idea of the Bund, imho. (Whose nemesis was another technocrat, blueblooded Vannevar. Not sure of the latter's condition,he was too high SES to tell) Poor Grothendieck could have had some! That pays out in, if not friends, careful non-fans to play math with him in the shed. (Here informalism would be crucial) However, I'm still a bit mindfogged so maybe next round.. but I did look up the finer details of Tokugawa & the Prussian influence on the Meiji effort to soften absolutism with social democracy. There's even a dissertation calling it "corporatism" (Graeber's term for Trump's ideology) https://evanlaksmana.com/dissertation https://evanlaksmana.com/dissertation I haven't checked if they meant the same thing.. ("Laksmana" is the Indonesian word for "Admiral", things like nominative determinism are perhaps also more common in the 3rd world [transplants]) Oh.. music seems to be the best therapy for Sz.. (think Helfgott-- he credits his father) if your son's friend was not past tensed, they could make a band