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> Clans/tribes don't emerge from the lack of a state. The state as we think of it is very recent in human history, after all. Might wanna reread what you wrote
by TulliusCicero 4y ago
> Clans/tribes don't emerge from the lack of a state. The state as we think of it is very recent in human history, after all.
Might wanna reread what you wrote there.
If it's from a lack of a state, why would states being recent be an issue? Though I would phrase it as, "in the absence of a state."
- sky-kedge0749 4y agoI don't totally understand your response. "Clans/tribes", which I think you originally used as a catch-all for the many and varied forms of local government over the past ten+ millennia of human history, predate the modern state. They don't emerge from the lack or absence of a state any more than freedom arises from the lack or absence of a jail. All of my comments have been, I hope respectfully, pushing back on the implication that the modern nation-state is the natural form of government and that in its absence people will necessarily find themselves members of small, violently feuding patriarchal groups.