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Does Generational Character Exist?

The answer is yes, unless you believe that the experiences people have don’t shape them. At a given time and place, we experience similar things. In the US of the 30s, we experience poverty, desperation, and the hope of FDR. In the 50s, we have prosperity, but also stifling expectations of behaviour and a closing […]

How Our Everyday Life Creates Our Character and Our Destiny

We are what we do. What we experience during our daily lives creates our habits, both of action and thought and those habitual actions and thoughts are our character. The character of men and women, and the shared character of a society is destiny. It determines how we respond to what happens, it is as […]

The Role of Character and Ideology in Prosperity

(First of two collections of important articles published 2014 or earlier. Read the second.) I want to take readers through some of my previous writing on ideology and character, and how they help form the societies in which we live. Taking the time to read these articles (a short book’s worth), should vastly improve your […]

What Matters Is Character (Terrorism and Rights Edition)

This chart tells you not about terrorism, but about the nature of the people living in and running Western Europe today. So, not even close to peak. Yet Europeans in the 70s did not get rid of their civil liberties in the way that France, for example, has. They also did not react with the […]

Character as Personal Destiny

I’ve commented before on character as destiny for societies.  Character, or personality if you prefer, determines how we act.  We all know people whose anger, or curiosity, or greed is predictable: people where you know exactly what they’ll do given a particular event.  Indeed, we truly know someone when we can make such predictions and […]

Matters of Character

Over the past year I’ve written a large number of pieces on ideology, and quite a few have been about character: how it is created by experience, and how specific types of character (like sociopathy) are selected for amongst our leadership classes. Let’s parse this out: 1) Character (personality), determines how people act. 2) While […]

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 17, 2024

by Tony Wikrent Strategic Political Economy  “‘If something requires us to cease production, we will do that:’ FAA [Leeham News & Analysis, via Naked Capitalism Water Cooler 03-13-2024] “The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is considering whether to suspend the Production Certificate of Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) if it’s not satisfied changes to its safety culture […]

Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – March 3, 2024

by Tony Wikrent Strategic Political Economy Amitav Ghosh’s Reckoning With Opium. Alexander Zaitchik, March 1, 2024 [The New Republic] His new book, Smoke and Ashes, traces the ravages of British opium on India from the eighteenth century to the present. [TW: I April 2016 I posted an excerpt from Commerce, Christianity, and Civilization, Versus British Free Trade. Letters […]

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