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10 Lessons From Real-Life Revolutions That Fictional Dystopias Ignore
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| 09/15/2014
| Esther Inglis-Arkell
Posted on 09/15/2014 5:47:13 PM PDT by walford
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That is also true. It has something to do with ethnic fragmentation (nobody wants other groups to have the same freedom they want for themselves), with religion (which trumps individual freedom in that part of the world), and with distrust (people assume that if they don't have the upper hand they will be at the mercy of others who aren't very merciful). Also tribalism, in the sense that the individual's life is not his own, it belongs to the tribe. That does have some benefits. They always know exactly what is expected of them, and have a sense of community and belonging that's often missing in modern society. But it doesn't allow for individual liberty.
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Hugin
("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!",)
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GGpaX4DumpedTea
(I am a Tea Party descendant...steeped in the Constitutional Republic given to us by the Founders)
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