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#9 – Sacrifice & Oppression at the Dawn of Tyranny

The Martyr Made Podcast

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The Kinship System Is Not a Hierarchy

No one has real power to coerce another person into doing something that he doesn't want to do. Authority is always personal and carismatic. The penalties for crossing them are ostracism and people refusing to co operate with you, social disapproval. All of primitive society is arrayed against the possibility of political or economic inequality emerging. Not only is there very little opportunity for individuals or small groups t to seize anything like tyrannical power.

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