Institutional VIRTU3

Most institutions grow out of a set rules for two of the three domains of VITRU3. Communities depend on a set of moral and ethical standards to avoid conflicts and resolve disputes peacefully. Markets function through a set of ethical and consequential conventions that foster mutually beneficial exchanges. Governments grow out of the attempt to codify a set of moral standards that will lead to long-term positive outcomes. Each of these institutions is subject to one of the three types of blindness.

The table below shows how differences in the priorities of institutions contribute to conflicts within and between societies. True VIRTU3 comes from each of these institutions compensating for the weaknesses in the others.

	COMMUNITY	GOVERNMENT	MARKETPLACE
DOMAIN	Moral & Ethical	Moral & Consequential	Ethical & Consequential
PLUS/MINUS	Right & Good/ Wrong & Bad	Positive & Good/ Negative & Bad	Right & Positive/ Wrong & Negative
CATEGORY	Theory & Beliefs	History & Beliefs	Theory & History
TIME	The Present & Future	The Past & Future	The Past & Present
SPACE	Local	National	Global
HIGHEST VALUE	Idealized Truth	Idealized Authority	Revealed Truth
MEASURE OF SUCCESS	Population Growth	National Autonomy	International Influence
BASIS	Self-Knowledge & Human Nature	Self-Knowledge & Observed Results	Human Nature & Observed Results
STYLES OF REASONING	Intuitive & Deductive	Intuitive & Inductive	Deductive & Inductive
FAILURE MODES	Self-Delusion/ Logical Fallacies	Self-Delusion/ Black Swans	Logical Fallacies/ Black Swans
SOURCE OF ERROR	Consequential Blindness	Ethical Blindness	Moral Blindness
MORAL PHILOSOPHY	Religion	Interventionism	Laissez-Faire
SCIENTIFIC PRIORITY	Social Correctness	Social Engineering	Engineering
JUDICIAL EMPHASIS	Mens Rea & Fault-Based Liability	Mens Rea & No-Fault Liability	Fault-Based Liability & No-Fault Liability
RELIGIOUS FOCUS	Divine Grace & Justice	Divine Grace & Favor	Divine Justice & Favor
ECONOMIC TOOLS	Economic Philosophy & Economic Praxeology	Economic Philosophy & Econometric Analysis	Economic Praxeology & Econometric Analysis
POLITICAL NARRATIVES	Aspirational Rationalism	Aspirational Pragmatism	Rational Pragmatism
AMERICAN POLITICS	Progressive Movement	Bipartisan Establishment	Conservative Movement
POLITICAL ECONOMICS	Cooperative Socialism	Regulatory Corporatism	Market Capitalism
POLITICAL HIERARCHY	Cooperative Meritocracy	Authoritarian Collectivism	Market Aristocracy
POLITICAL POWER-GROUP	Revolutionary Patriot-Insurgents	The Government (Civil & Military)	Reactionary Patriot-Insurgents
POLITICAL FAILURE MODE	Revolutionary Fragmentation	Military Totalitarianism	Reactionary Fragmentation