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James Pogue - Nature, Strife, and American Destiny

From the New World

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Are You Trying to Create a Tribe?

i'm not convinced that rationality is a great way to organize society. But i also think people are, to some large degree, fundamentally pretty tribal. The increasingly failed project o united states was to find a way to create a tribe that was not a blood and soil tribe. If violence in burning down police stations is what it took to get people to wake up to realizing how fucked people were within that like, i think that was probably justified. I will have to object to your english professor for their modes and ways of talking about it, um, and stifling debate and all that stuff.

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