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You don't see an institution that established useful norms persisting for lifetimes as one worth preserving and emulating? I do. Medieval guilds are another e
by azemetre 1y ago
You don't see an institution that established useful norms persisting for lifetimes as one worth preserving and emulating?
I do.
Medieval guilds are another equivalent but they could not deal with the industrial revolution or colonialism, so they don't seem like something worth studying (outside of their failures) if it can't deal with societal change.
- clickety_clack 1y agoYou’re missing what I’m saying. I’m not commenting at all on their usefulness. I’m saying that the motivating factors that build and grow institutions are short term. Institutions last because people happen to find them useful over successive short time horizons, or they’re able to change them to suit the needs of the time. There’s no super long term planning in it, some happened to have the right combination of elements and some didn’t.