I find I have a better model of the world when I go past the modern right into the old right, such as Carlyle[1]: "the meaning of all reform-movement, electing

I find I have a better model of the world when I go past the modern right into the old right, such as Carlyle[1]: "the meaning of all reform-movement, electing and electioneering, of popular agitation, parliamentary eloquence, and all political effort whatsoever, is that you may get the ten Ablest Men in England put to preside over your ten principal departments of affairs. " Government isn't bad because it is government. Government is bad when it sets up systems with incentives built in to keep good men away, and to hamper the few that choose to join it anyway. In this case, the stopped clock of government told its daily truth - it picked a winner. [1] If Carlyle is too dense for you, Moldbug is his modern prophet