picked up rule of the clan on someone's recommendation and it's always striking how liberal missionaries don't know they're missionaries
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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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Wasn't she the magic bluecheck? Did it get revoked finally?
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The British did private property and trade before Kings managed to centralize power. Similarly Somalia managed to do trade as soon as the UN stabbed itself out of the way, and they're not exactly your ideal starting population.
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I'm not sure what you're arguing, that trade and property are sufficient conditions for individualism?
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Somalians aren't individualist. I'm saying centralized power can't be a necessary ingredient.
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