Notes: primitives for human organization, post-1870 societal-organization patterns, & modes of production; Dan Drezner on chaos monkey-controlled networks; America's two nations; Nasim Taleb talks...
Re: A Tale of Two Countries. Until recently, I divided my time between Quebec and Florida. I have long pondered the discrepancy between these two colonies acquired simultaneously by the British under the Treaty of Paris. A great deal of the red portion indicated on the map includes Florida as it existed under the British during this period. Nobody lived in Southern Florida then, which is today populous, urban, and blue.
The great difference, in my view, is that Britain needed to subdue an existing European population in the case of Quebec, while they desired to make money for the aristocracy by establishing an entirely new population and new economic system in Florida.
The British used homesteading to attract slavers, I refuse to call them slaveowners, to their Florida colony at a ratio of three blacks to every one white. They also exported the Bloody Codes, which in my view form the basis of the honor codes in the South.
We suffer from the remnants of this history today, as I believe that the map reflects. Everywhere that the British established this system, violence, poverty, and ignorance persist.
I hope that this post is not too long and too off the subject Brad,
Is Drezner claiming that Twitter is now cashflow-positive? I find that difficult to believe. And if it's not cashflow-positive, then its continued existence depends on Musk putting new money in. How likely is that?
Re: A Tale of Two Countries. Until recently, I divided my time between Quebec and Florida. I have long pondered the discrepancy between these two colonies acquired simultaneously by the British under the Treaty of Paris. A great deal of the red portion indicated on the map includes Florida as it existed under the British during this period. Nobody lived in Southern Florida then, which is today populous, urban, and blue.
The great difference, in my view, is that Britain needed to subdue an existing European population in the case of Quebec, while they desired to make money for the aristocracy by establishing an entirely new population and new economic system in Florida.
The British used homesteading to attract slavers, I refuse to call them slaveowners, to their Florida colony at a ratio of three blacks to every one white. They also exported the Bloody Codes, which in my view form the basis of the honor codes in the South.
We suffer from the remnants of this history today, as I believe that the map reflects. Everywhere that the British established this system, violence, poverty, and ignorance persist.
I hope that this post is not too long and too off the subject Brad,
Is Drezner claiming that Twitter is now cashflow-positive? I find that difficult to believe. And if it's not cashflow-positive, then its continued existence depends on Musk putting new money in. How likely is that?