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Two-time Prometheus award-winning hard science fiction author. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JPPMS6  Learn how to homestead https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093BC3K1T 

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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Jan 2020

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      1/ while I agree w the ethos expressed here, the actual facts are entirely wrong. For the vast majority of human history there has NOT been a frontier that normal people could get to, physically, economically, or legally ...and if they could, it would be even worse than staying https://t.co/fsEy9ntOEL 

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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Jan 2020

      2/ In 1500 AD where could an English serf go? In 500 AD where could a Roman plebe go? In 1,000 BC where could a Babylonian tenant farmer go? Occasionally folks would light out for the borders, but there were not vast reserves of unclaimed fertile land, and >>>

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Jan 2020

      3/ states, for all their predation (I am an ancap) also filled a power vacuum that - beyond their borders - were filled by other powers: barbarian tribes, bandits, other kingdoms (also with taxes, social norms, mandatory religions, etc.).

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Jan 2020

      4/ saying "for all of human history, there was a frontier that free men could escape to" is just as ahistorical and wrong as the Nrx kids who look at 1950s advertising and think "for all of human history a guy could work 40 hrs per week and afford a convertible ford and a waifu"

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Jan 2020

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Snake

      5/ it's not worth discussing "if the guys who set out for the free frontier were weirdos and antisocial" when the point is THERE WAS NO FREE FRONTIER. I mean, except for, like, maybe 150 years or so.https://twitter.com/tigerboy74u/status/1220727352294023171 …

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      Snake @tigerboy74u
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      I mean while you're not wrong, it was largely weird antisocial types, the really naive, and people at rock bottom who pushed the frontier. Those sets either don't care or don't understand about it being shitty
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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Jan 2020

          6/ I recommend the books "Against the Grain" and "The Art of Not Being Governed" by James C Scott. He argues kind of against my position, saying that there WAS escape from centralism ... but it wasn't a free frontier!

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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Jan 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Snake

          7/ yes, I agree more generally, most peoples' broad sweeping statements about human nature and "for all of the history of mankind" are based off of bad movies and half remembered AD&D campaigns.https://twitter.com/tigerboy74u/status/1220728250244063232 …

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          Snake @tigerboy74u
          Replying to @MorlockP
          I mean I think that time frame is the perspective of the original post; any further back than that and most people are just thinking about how wild and untamed Medieval Europe looks in bad movies
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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Jan 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Inquisitor Paz, Ordo Malleus

          8/ I think American Exceptionalism is about our character BECAUSE of the land mass we lucked into (and also bc England was on the periphery of continental Europe and an island - our ancestors got stomped on less frequently than some. C.f. Russians.)https://twitter.com/DogmanRespecter/status/1220728352266506243 …

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          Inquisitor Paz, Ordo Malleus @TLEPaz
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          American exceptionalism isn't about our system or ~necessarily~ the national character but rather the land mass we lucked into.
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        5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Jan 2020

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          9/ need to clarify: even for "150 years or so" (i.e. the American expansion) the western frontier was freaking DANGEROUS. The most common novel of that era had the plot "red savages kill and torture entire family, take young women as sex slaves". >>>https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1220727747682734081 …

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          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs @MorlockP
          5/ it's not worth discussing "if the guys who set out for the free frontier were weirdos and antisocial" when the point is THERE WAS NO FREE FRONTIER. I mean, except for, like, maybe 150 years or so. https://twitter.com/tigerboy74u/status/1220727352294023171 …
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        6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Jan 2020

          10/ ...and this was not sensationalistic nonsense! It was based on newspaper articles, etc. "the American west" and "the era of homesteading" was like 20-30 years after the Indian Wars ended, and their power collapsed. It was ALMOST A PERFECT ANALOGY to the 1950s.

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        7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Jan 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Quasispecies Mutant Swarm  🏴  ☮️

          11/ Humans basically can't survive on their own, in the wilderness, without a tribe. There is a reason that the worst punishment in hunter gatherer bands is exile, and second worst is ostracism.https://twitter.com/SchraderValves/status/1220732520662274048 …

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          Quasispecies Mutant Swarm  🏴  ☮️ @SchraderValves
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          The vast majority of human history occurred before recorded history, certainly more than 5000 years ago. In those days due to low population density how would it not be possible to just leave the tribe and go off somewhere and start over, with some others, couldn't go it alone.
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        8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Jan 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Lucio Martelli

          12/ This is an interesting assertion, but I don't buy it. A single man, wandering in the wilderness, is defenseless against other hunter gatherer tribes. We know that the homicide rate among hunter gatherers is very high. Single men don't wander >>>https://twitter.com/LucioMM1/status/1220734569990774785 …

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          Lucio Martelli @LucioMM1
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          yes it is ahistorical since after agriculture fully developed. But it is historical from the beginning of homo sapiens to circa 3000-5000 AD. So we evolved in an environment where it was normal for "rebels" to simply leave and explore further. That's probably how we went /
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        9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Jan 2020

          13/ ...any more than single chimpanzees do. Exile is a death sentence. Our brains excel in communication and social skills SO THAT we can band together in tribes in an intensely dangerous environment.

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        10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Jan 2020

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          14/ https://twitter.com/LibertyFarmNH/status/1220734916859777024 …

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        11. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Jan 2020

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Lucio Martelli

          15/ OK, but now we're no longer talking about "a man lighting out for the frontier", but are talking about "a tribe fractures in two". which, ok, sure, that happened ...but has nothing to do with the thesis of this thread.https://twitter.com/LucioMM1/status/1220735224495190016 …

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          Lucio Martelli @LucioMM1
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          not single men. Think group of adolescents. That's also when rebelling is at its peak.
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        12. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 24 Jan 2020

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          16/ https://twitter.com/warpfactor13/status/1220736000453943297 …

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