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    1. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Jan 25

      should I do an article compare/contrast-ing merovingian/carolingian francia with the ideal of ancapistan

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    2. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Jan 25

      like,pic.twitter.com/I3qodyEEWO

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    3. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Jan 25

      really tho the main effect is with a stateless society you get incredibly strong personal bonds of blood and oath, wholly private law oriented around recompense rather than order...

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    4. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Jan 25

      ...constant warfare and social preeminence of the warrior, division of kingdoms as patrimony and property without regard for the residents thereof...

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    5. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Jan 25

      ...hermetic religious orders and secretive guilds. essentially a landscape of intensely tribal communities, though none with real preeminence

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    6. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Jan 25

      increasingly convinced the power of the state to enforce norms evenly across a populace is what creates the neutral space that allows the "individual" to emerge...

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    7. Mori‏ @moritheil Jan 25
      Replying to @alicemazzy

      Wouldn't people just need more power than average to be individuals? Especially in settings without modern weaponry?

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      Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Jan 25
      Replying to @moritheil

      possibly, I'm more musing than holding forth

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        2. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Jan 25
          Replying to @alicemazzy @moritheil

          I mean, without modern weaponry, "power" means power over land and men, which by definition places you at the apex of a group rather than as an individual

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        3. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Jan 25
          Replying to @alicemazzy @moritheil

          but I've heard the argument that the individual was created by the rifle, that the leveling effect it has is really what was behind ~four centuries of liberal revolts/reforms

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        4. Alice Maz‏ @alicemazzy Jan 25
          Replying to @alicemazzy @moritheil

          and the real question is whether further technological developments lend to a situation of greater individual empowerment or total disempowerment

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        5. Mori‏ @moritheil Jan 25
          Replying to @alicemazzy

          The crossbow did it first. The gun was effectively a better crossbow, but the crossbow itself already enabled a woman or child to kill without having years of training or strength of arms. Hence the fulmination against them, the arguments they were unchristian, etc.

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        6. Mori‏ @moritheil Jan 25
          Replying to @moritheil @alicemazzy

          I would argue that the crossbow, and later the gun, made numbers important. Prior to that, truly disproportionate numbers of untrained peasants were needed to win against a knight. Now we have tech like drones and ICBMs that do not depend on raw numbers of trigger fingers.

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        7. Mori‏ @moritheil Jan 25
          Replying to @moritheil @alicemazzy

          As a side note, social hierarchy is far more intuitive if the man giving out orders is worth 40-50 peasants in a fight. It's easy to believe he really is the best of humanity and has a divinely given right to lead. Less so if he's just another dude with a rifle.

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