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/ 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/ 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/ 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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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/ 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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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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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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Replying to @VarangianSkull @MorlockP
Dugin has a lot of good content on the island/Atlantic civilization mindset. He hates us, but his outsider perspective is interesting.
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Replying to @MorlockP @VarangianSkull
Weird. Can't buy it on Amazon. I wonder if they banned it. https://books.google.com/books/about/Last_War_of_the_World_Island.html?id=hUKqCQAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description …
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