toy model historically, politics was a secondary identity. voting patterns perhaps reflected ones primary identity, whatever it was; coalitions formed from this contemporarily, politics is more and more the primary identity as old identities have faded out
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reading Dominion by Holland right now. also compare The Final Pagan Generation thinking about the Reformation, the Thirty Years War a lot about the Enlightenment maybe we never really got past Marx either lots of historical models, feels hard to generalize from them tho
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but im not sure there's really that much to be predicted, not much space to maneuver, and maybe we understand all of this well enough so rather maybe its just a matter of strapping in and trying to make it through to the other side whatever that happens to be
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it's okay to learn things out loud
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