The Bronze Age Collapse 2 ft. Patrick Wyman
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Samurai Restoration
i think what we're experiencing is a kind ofa collapse of legitimacy of an entire set of paradimes. The restoration after the monarchy, after napoleon's vis is a good parallel for that. We're hearkening back to these extremely ancient forms in order to maintain at least the illusion of a connection to the past. And that's one of the interesting things about legitimacy, is like that it's constantly being contested and constantly being formulated. So, like, you can ah things that seem irrelevant, can, when turned to the correct purposes, suddenly become a source of legitimacy.
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