he lays out his thesis, which is something I kind of stumbled on mostly from studying salic law, that the individual is predicted on a...
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...powerful state enforcing uniformity on a populace, absent which people depend on group membership for security of property and person
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and he starts by citing a 19th century political philosopher's construction of the transition from "status society" to "contract society"
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which is basically the same as the honor culture/dignity culture terminology people tend to be more familiar with
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what's interesting is he frames all this in terms of like, "this is something liberals need to understand so we can safeguard our own...
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...societies, resist dissolution of the state and the return to necessity of tribal identity, and impose our world-system across the earth"
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in intro he promises case study of subjugation of the highlanders as blueprint for how to bring liberal democracy to somalia and pakistan
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it's fascinating to me the self-assuredness, that it's not understood as enlarging one system at the expense of others
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but about bringing people into the one true faith, putting them on the track to transcendent rightness
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