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#9 – Sacrifice & Oppression at the Dawn of Tyranny

The Martyr Made Podcast

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The Problem of Legitimacy

For most of human history, or if you're in much of the world to day, somebody could kill your brother in front of ten thousand witnesses. Questions of legitimacy had little or no real meaning whatsoever outside the kinship group and tribe. This is what served as the closest thing to law from the beginning of our species until relatively very, very recently. One of the big problems that european colonialists ran into was trying to impose a state monopoly on violence over tribal societies that are still operating according to honor and vendetta.

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