
Daniel Schmachtenberger: Self-terminating Civilization (E34)
A New and Ancient Story: The Podcast
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The Monopoly of Influence
Market economics and the idea of the separate individual came in and introduced that logic. It weakened the informal ways that people regulated the use of their commons. When that happened then the imposition of forced by a state became necessary so it was kind of a substitute for right yeah okaySo this is a super important example when we say that there's a top-down force that binds the bottom up one that has monopoly of force monopoly of force in the way we think about it today. you're basically establishing one killer after another after another of an argument, he says.
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