and @futurepundit blogged about the cousin marriage thing very early on. didn't he draw your attention to it as well as kurtz?
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1,400 years of first-cousin marriage, as advocated by the cult founder.... What could possibly go wrong?pic.twitter.com/al4US2h6E1
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''Liberal democracy is based on the Western idea of autonomous individuals committed to a public good, but that's not how members of these tight and bounded kin groups see the world. Their world is divided into two groups: kin and strangers.''https://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/28/world/struggle-for-iraq-traditions-iraqi-family-ties-complicate-american-efforts-for.html …
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Harvard sociologist Banfield called it "amoral familialism".... Sonny Corleone described it in Godfather 1... and if you wipe out an entire generation of the mafia a new one Springs into place from that same attitude..
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Interesting stuff, probably something most Americans still have never considered.
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Yes you did. I read it.
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I worked in a civil society organization for improving democratic efforts in a Muslim-majority country. I quickly learned the people out of power are just as greedy and treacherous as those with it. The main difference is that they're incompetent losers too.
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