I was with you until this: ”Ultimately, the civilization systematically destroys the ability of its unreasonable men to compete for the slots in the society where rationality is required to maintain the society’s energy and the society looses the ability to respond coherently to threats and collpases.”
The problem isn’t that the unreasonable rationalists can’t compete for the slots of power. The problem is that they can; and they take over all those slots, and have no conservatives around to tell them to try to understand the purpose of fences before tearing them down.
I was with you until this:
”Ultimately, the civilization systematically destroys the ability of its unreasonable men to compete for the slots in the society where rationality is required to maintain the society’s energy and the society looses the ability to respond coherently to threats and collpases.”
The problem isn’t that the unreasonable rationalists can’t compete for the slots of power. The problem is that they can; and they take over all those slots, and have no conservatives around to tell them to try to understand the purpose of fences before tearing them down.