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Oikafobia: The Nominologist's Guide to a Successful Life

There's this great book called Oikafobia that I've been wanting to talk about, but he compares and contrasts the way people handle problems. When they're just getting started and when they're far advanced it is like hatred of the homeland. And one of the things he says though is that he talks about the battle of the 300, the Spartans at Thermopylae. He says that only a young society of men who are in charge, who are the warriors themselves, right? Because that is of course how Roman and Greek democracy got started. It was the people actually fighting these wars who were also the politicians which we could really use a dose of now.

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