This is the Kaderie Daily Podcast for Friday, July 21st,

2023. I'm Caleb Brown. How do rules work? Quite often not particularly well.

And the reasons why are manifold.

So when governments craft policy make rules,

Hidders Deidra McClosky says those rules are often better discovered than imposed. We talked about the general difficulty of

policy earlier this month. Governments make rules, they make laws, they make policy,

and humans often will look at policy as David Letterman used to say

Tra-t-t-t-t's you know it's like traffic laws in New York. They're really just rough guidelines.

Advisory.

And you suggested this discussion to me,

and I thought, it reminds me of this line from Robert Anton Wilson, one of the great writers that everyone should read,

blue uniforms are real, but police, that's a social fiction.

Absolutely.

And so when you think about governments making rules and saying, well, we're going to, here's

what we're going to, we're going to scrupulously enforce this new rule and that, that will

solve this social problem that we face.

Well you know there are all kinds of problems with this statist belief that we, if there's a problem,

Mama and Papa State will intervene sweetly and solve it.

That's been a stronger and stronger assumption, I think, in the modern world over the last century or so.

200 years ago, the average citizen knew very well that the Kings and Dukes in charge of them

were interested in their own self-interest in having nice palaces and

fighting interesting wars. They knew that. Everyone knew that and everyone said, oh well I guess that's

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