this is the sociopath thing from your gervais principle, except for society instead of firms right?
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I don’t think so actually. Criminality seems more specialized
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This kind of idea is also found in anarchist/libertarian critiques of the state, and in Hitler/Carl Schmitt nihilism (see the intro to Snyder's Black Earth, quoted here: https://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2018/04/you-know-who-else-was-conflict-theorist.html … )
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Hmm I wonder if the key difference between the criminal and the conflict theorist is that the former is actually superior in at least acknowledging a contempt-worthy but legitimate place for the law-abiding, as suckers. Partial Hobbesian: struggle of a few among themselves
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Took you a while to see it huh
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I didn’t have benefit of Russian experience

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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Exactly. The Michael Corleone philosophy. "Now who's being naive, Kay?"
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I once proposed a “criminalist” theory in which criminals and criminal organizations, not states and legit citizens, were conceived as the motor of historical development.
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