The best monocausal explanation I've heard for this is Genghis Khan and successors rampaged everywhere else in Eurasia but were stopped by happenstance from wrecking western europe, so everyone else was set back while whitey chillaxed and burned witches.
I'm an American Robot, my iron ancestors shot hot lead to drive her kind from our shores Shitty dictatorships outside of the West and its children tend to basically serve as dominance structures for tribal kinship networks See Saudis, many SSA regions, probably others
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I'm not admiring her purely as a political figure in this context...
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Saving my sweet metal affection for the huddled masses yearning to breathe free pal
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Additionally and probably more saliently, because I am way out of practice actually defending object level claims, places where kinship dissolved early had longer to develop strong alternative institutions based on laws rather than blood Is the usual claim I think
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But I mean, how do we know all this good stuff didn't happen because some other cause made life better? What I like about Genghis is that there is no question of correlation or multiple causes. Bro tore shit up.
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