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|content=@BTC_Archive Oh. I understand this confusion. You are looking at a large theory component by component comparing it to single component world views.  
|content=@BTC_Archive Oh. I understand this confusion. You are looking at a large theory component by component comparing it to single component world views.  


A car has springs. But you can’t drive a spring. Etc

[[Is-a Versus Has-a|A car has springs. But you can’t drive a spring.]] Etc

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|content=Burn it all the F down. All tax is theft. Exit > Voice. Just put it on a blockchain bro. No Justice, No Peace. No Big Deal: It’s China’s turn. But those mean tweets. Forth turning ma dude. “Orange man Bad” right? But Jan 6th!
 
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|content=Fantasize all you want, but when you are done, you will still have to save or found institutions that are not this extractive, dishonest, sociopathic, and incompetent.
 
Don’t believe it? Spend a month without using any institutions.
 
[[Morals|Moral]]: Stop looking for no-brainer summations.
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Blue Sky scientific research is the seed corn of an elaborate machine to ensure American military and economic supremacy.  
Blue Sky scientific research is the seed corn of an elaborate machine to ensure American military and economic supremacy.  
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Just like the market for Generals and Admirals. Or Judges. Or Senators.
Just like the market for Generals and Admirals. Or Judges. Or Senators.


Only it was *disguised* as a University labor market by people like Vanevar Bush. But we most all worked, ultimately, for the US Government.
Only it was *disguised* as a University labor market by people like [[Science, The Endless Frontier (1945)|Vanevar Bush]]. But we most all worked, ultimately, for the US Government.


Our Military in particular. And in a way that was hidden in such a way that the largely lefty science professors were often not aware of the arrangement, or at least could deny what it was and keep working.
Our Military in particular. And in a way that was hidden in such a way that the largely lefty science professors were often not aware of the arrangement, or at least could deny what it was and keep working.


Why? Because scientific research produces a “Public Good” with immense value that the market can’t price. This is Econ 101.
Why? Because scientific research produces a [[Public Good|“Public Good”]] with immense value that the market can’t price. This is Econ 101.


And it worked like gang busters. But because it was cryptic, we forgot how it worked.
And it worked like gang busters. But because it was cryptic, we forgot how it worked.
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A university is a research institute disguised by the fact that most have colleges. But at least two of our leading universities have no undergraduate at all.
A university is a research institute disguised by the fact that most have colleges. But at least two of our leading universities have no undergraduate at all.


A Lamborghini has a radio. But it isn’t a radio. No one buys one for the radio.  
[[Is-a Versus Has-a|A Lamborghini has a radio. But it isn’t a radio. No one buys one for the radio.]]


A University, is not a college. By the same token.
[[Is-a Versus Has-a|A University, is not a college. By the same token.]]
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Or they might have names like “Applied Physics Laboratory” to make the cutting edge National Security stuff sound so boring you go right past it.  
Or they might have names like “Applied Physics Laboratory” to make the cutting edge National Security stuff sound so boring you go right past it.  


Try this: https://t.co/NeqbJ748iq
Try this: https://www.jhuapl.edu


Kind of like “The Aerospace Corporation” or “Battelle”.  
Kind of like “The Aerospace Corporation” or “Battelle”.  
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