Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Drawn from what Ada Palmer said
government What states are for and what they are worse at than markets and networks: legitimacy, moral hazard, and who may be entrusted with power.
Mental modelSecond-order thinking
And soon we have a precedent that every new pope feels he has the authority to knock down every pawn upon the chessboard if he feels like it. Once that is the norm, even a fairly nice pope still inherits the idea that the pope is going to overthrow and replace governments. And this creates a unique instability within Italy that no other part of Europe is subject to
Where this was said
Watch from 0:03:25 plays here↗Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time – Ada Palmeryoutube.com
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I hold this tooShared subject first, then similar wording. They may agree or disagree.