The Bronze Age Collapse 2 ft. Patrick Wyman
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Is Consent a Product of the First and Second World War?
Nenow: We're not living in a world of mass national mobilization for any greater purpose any more. In order to have the whole nation involved in some kind of war effort, you're going to need to purchase their consent by means of including them in the state project. And so this is, you know, post second world war, when you have an entire generations of people who have done military service on behalf of their country,. You are rewarding their buying with social programmes. Nenow: But what we've seen in the last ten or 11 years is that increasingly brutal extraction - whether it comes from a increased rent seeking and slash and grab... It's taking place increasingly here.
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