mercoledì 14 febbraio 2018

La religione come una bella canzone

Il guaio è che la maggior parte dei giovani adulti che ancora si dicono cristiani considerano la religione come un allenamento a diventare una persona per bene. Non solo, si pensano fondamentalmente come persone per bene piuttosto che come credenti. Nella misura in cui conservano comunque una fede, di solito essa è per lo più di tipo emozionale. La fede diventa una bella canzone che ci emoziona toccandoci di tanto in tanto nel profondo allietando la dura giornata fatta di routine. Eppure, la preoccupazione delle gerarchie viene riservata ai cattolici "rigidi", quelli che vorrebbero praticare il cattolicesimo ortodosso e far crescere i loro figli come cattolici credenti e fedeli. Si ha l'impressione che a certi cristiani non interessi più la santità, che la ritengano in qualche modo pericolosa
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I cattolici rigidi

Ci sono cattolici rigidi, amari, estremi? Certamente sì. Ma Francesco e i suoi sostenitori hanno l'abitudine tremenda e profondamente ingiusta di denunciare come "rigidi" preti e laici che semplicemente credono nella fede cattolica, e vogliono viverla com’è autorevolmente proclamata e, in alcuni casi, nelle sue forme liturgiche più antiche.
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Chapter 9 HISTORY Rights Flow from Frontiers

Chapter 9 HISTORY Rights Flow from Frontiers
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A Market of Governance Is an Engine of Moral Progress
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Most of human prehistory was barbaric.
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Civil society emerged in ancient Greece,
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to move to neighboring city-states
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Plato and Aristotle place a negative connotation on the old, respected means of governing: tyranny.
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economic specialization and interregional trade
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Those who trade, trade in ideas—
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democracy
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republicanism,
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federations
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divisions of power,
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“Greece was divided into many small self-governing communities,
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Greek geography: every island, valley,
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lack of a political center.
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dozens and later hundreds of independent poleis,
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Each city-state became a testing ground for small innovations in laws,
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With conquest and control so difficult,
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market competition outstripped military competition.
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The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece, scholar Josiah Ober
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“Experts in various arts and crafts migrated to new homes
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Athens emerged; it was not designed.
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learning from the past governance
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the Italian Renaissance.
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Armies of monarchs couldn’t get across the Alps in one piece, leaving the Italian peninsula a natural experiment in polycentric governance with easy access to water.
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terrible time to be conqueror, but a great time to be a trader.
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merchant and banking class who patronized the arts,
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sovereign cities engaged in ceaseless economic and artistic competition,
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increase in literacy, numeracy, and an unprecedented near tripling of per capita income
Note:ITALIA

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from the eleventh century to the fifteenth
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immigrate to cities en masse and making Italy the most urbanized region
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free-trade zones sprouted in Tuscany, and entrepreneurs who served became wealthier than nobility who ruled,
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the dynamic aquatic peninsula:
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magnates who built cities
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Only in the land without a king did business innovations outstrip military innovations,
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Venice
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Venice was rich, urban, and intensely aquatic, a center for commerce with no center of political power.
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Venetians had developed equity and mortgage instruments, bankruptcy laws, double-entry accounting, the first business schools,
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features that for a time discourage centralized control and encourage decentralized creation and choice.
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On the American frontier,
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proliferation of states, territories, and laws,
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“Shesteading”
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Brit Benjamin
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how many seasteaders would like to maintain the gender balance
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dumbstruck silence
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competition in the market of marriage.
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everybody was excluded except periwigged property owners,
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Suffrage was apparently a big lure for these migrants,
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One by one, the fringe states granted voting rights to formerly disenfranchised groups:
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property acquired during the marriage is owned jointly by both spouses, on the basis that it would attract “women of fortune” and was thus “the very best provision to get us wives.”
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female suffrage,
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In ancient Greece, Aristophanes wrote a play called Lysistrata,
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boycott sex until the men agree
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the best strategies for moral progress
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efforts of obscure social entrepreneurs in competing jurisdictions innovating to attract citizens by treating them like customers.
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Moral progress emerges from millions of individuals competing for novel ways to profit by pleasing one another.
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Human rights come from the fringe on the frontier, and so does technological innovation.
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begin as innovators and then become stagnant monopolies protecting themselves against innovation.
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innovation is destabilizing—
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“Cardwell’s Law,”
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no nation remains technologically innovative for long.
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As one nation became stagnant, the torch of technological leadership was passed to another,
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a story of repeated failure.
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Portugal,
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Venice
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Genoa,
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England,
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Spain,
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France,
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Luis de Santángel,
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Competition really has a way of driving risky ventures.
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Compare this to China,
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If the Italian merchant Marco Polo’s tales are true, he arrived in China in 1271 to find a futuristic wonder world far surpassing what he had known in Europe.
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Jared Diamond proposes that innovation in China was stifled by the lack of competitive governance.
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There was no frontier or enclave
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geography of zigzagging mountains, seas, islands, peninsulas,
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A Chinese explorer with a nutty notion could not bounce from king to king to queen.
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“Any man of genius is paralyzed immediately by the thought that his efforts will bring him punishment rather than rewards.”
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the Great Wall to keep out foreigners,
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“How China Became Capitalist,”
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“When China’s 32 provinces, 282 municipalities, 2,862 counties, 19,522 towns, and 14,677 villages threw themselves into an open competition for investment and for good ideas
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the sea becomes a permanent frontier for pilgrims
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Franklin was a genius. But he was also in the right place at the right time.
MGLIAIA DI FRANKLIN NEL MONDO

Legge di Cardwell

Legge di Cardwell: anche il più scatenato degli innovatori, dopo aver acquisito il monopolio, si trincera nei suoi privilegi e combatte fino all'ultimo sangue ogni forma di innovazione ulteriore.
Memore di questo insegnamento, il saggio conclude: edifica il tuo impero e fanne una frontiera perenne in modo che ognuno si senta minacciato nei suoi privilegi.


Le origini del progresso morale

Da dove viene il progresso morale? Forse dalla fronte aggrottata di un pensatore che medita sui misteri della natura umana?
No, piuttosto dalle giurisdizioni di frontiera in competizione tra loro che si contendono i cittadini come se fossero clienti.
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Europa regina dei fallimenti

Una storia di fallimenti finita bene: Cristoforo Colombo alla ricerca dello sponsor.
In Pirtogallo: irriso.
A Venezia: " non ci faccia perdere tempo giovanotto".
A Genova: rimbalzato.
In Inghilterra: congedato senza tanti complimenti.
In Spagna: gettato in pasto alle burocrazie.
In Francia: " vedremo, vedremo".
Alla fine la Regina Isabella, superando il parere degli esperti, confortata dai consigli privati di Luis de Santángel (che aveva incrociato CC alla corte di Francia) e desiderosa di non lasciare "un continente" ai competitori, pronuncia il suo sì.
Morale: il successo di Cristoforo Colombo lo si deve alle tante porte a cui poteva bussare. In Cina ne avrebbe avuta solo una. L'Europa diventa vincente e conquista il mondo poiché è un posto in grado di moltiplicare i fallimenti.
Riccardo Mariani
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