The Tyranny of Existing Concepts

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I didn't want to write a book just about that. More to break with what the political economist Headley Bull sort of famously called the tyranny of existing concepts. I tried to roll out in the book is examples where there were the thought was actually presented of making this fragmented territory something that might actually come into existence and become kind of a dominant form. Probably the chapter that I'm most proud of in thebook is the chapter on South Africa. And they thought that South Africa could just should just be shattered up into, you know, hundreds of Swiss style cantons.

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