"When people hear one story, they tend to ask: is this true? When they hear two stories, they tend to ask: which one of these is true?
Isnβt this a neat trick?
Maybe our whole world is built on it"
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Isnβt this a neat trick?
Maybe our whole world is built on it"
- ππ°ππ₯π£πΆπ¨, ππ©π¦ πππ¦π’π³ ππͺππ
"Any point on which both poles concur is shared story: 'uncontroversial, bipartisan consensus.'
Shared story has root privilege. It has no natural enemies and is automatically true."
Shared story has root privilege. It has no natural enemies and is automatically true."
The key feature of the two-story state is much less reliance on hard repression. As in the four-stroke engine, the cost of the feature is a pile of parts and a drop in performance.
The fundamental engineering problem of the two-story state is to contain the active, but innocuous, political conflict which distracts its subjects out of any real democratic power.
"The modern two-story democracy contains two power cores: a civic core and a political core.
The trick is: in theory, the political core is stronger than the civic core. In practice, the civic core is stronger than the political core."
The trick is: in theory, the political core is stronger than the civic core. In practice, the civic core is stronger than the political core."
A stable regime must maintain this power inversion. If stability is lost, the political core takes control. For an instant, the engine becomes a real democracyβthen it turns into something else, or just catches fire and explodes. Think Germany in 1933
(If you are confused about why the wokerati media is in favor of democracy in theory but not in practice, why they love free speech - as long as it's not actually free to say anything they don't want - Moldbug is telling you why)
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