whos gonna be the first person to have their kids taken away for political tweeting
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idea: suppose states tend to be totalizing by nature then you might expect their chiefest enemies to be religion, families, and firms or guilds: the greatest historical bastions of nonpolitical power
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of these families are the strongest but outside of tribal areas that strength is only local firms and guilds have great flexibility and economic power, and are in a sense indispensable to the state in the end religions are a grave, grave danger when opposed to a state
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generally in the US all of these have been hollowed out religions are broadly fractured and mostly domesticated, their broader functions usurped by state welfare firms are incredibly tightly regulated and exist only by the forebearence of the state complete with commissars
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families have been hollowed out and at most socioeconomic levels mostly shattered as independent entities public school has replaced most vertical transmission of knowledge and norms
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especially looking at religion and families, seems like maybe once the secondary roles of a social institution are replaced by a state alternative, that institution is done for
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enter: christian/social democracy
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that is one thing in its favor hypothetically
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Families can limit the totality of control the central authority can exercise over directing the attitudes/effort of the individual. What states need to day is just such control. The distributed, family based structure works okay for lower power, less complex societies.
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A good counterpoint can be found in the society described in Coulanges' The Ancient City.
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