@sarahdoingthing In other words I do believe modern democracy+capitalism system is much less backed/stabilized by guard labor, violence.
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@sarahdoingthing It's all anchoring. It's fun to compare American cops shooting blacks to (say) Praetorian guard, but latter was way worse2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing Depends on what you mean by incarceration, and whether you judge modern institutions by U.S. alone or all lib dem ones1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing Maybe it's a bit of claim credit, assign blame, but I attribute incarceration to ghosts of slavery from non-lib-dem past1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@sarahdoingthing I give you: the Opium Wars and how China got de facto colonized without the land wars that were needed for India :)1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@sarahdoingthing Not trying to condone everything about status quo. Just calibrating tiny secular signal buried in big cyclic swings1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@sarahdoingthing In many ways the noise-signal problem is more fundamental than whether the secular signal is "progress" or "decline"1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@sarahdoingthing If we had a clean secular signal, two sides could just agree to disagree about which way is up and move on
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@sarahdoingthing Most debate is around whether a particular contemporary trend is part of an < 1 lifetime cycle or not0 replies 0 retweets 0 likesThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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