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Elite overproduction causes society to break into factions symbolized by princes, with losing factions exiled into new colonies until no frontier remains.
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Elite overproduction causes society to break into factions symbolized by princes, with losing factions exiled into new colonies until no frontier remains.
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He says Spain and Portugal colonized South America by exploiting mineral wealth, enslaving local populations, and converting them to Catholicism.
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He presents Spanish conquest and plantation extraction as the first profitable European model in the Americas, which then draws English, French, and Dutch competitors into the New World.
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He names plague, climate change, and Yamnaya colonization as the three things that destroyed old Europe, with plague as the most important.
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Manifest Destiny is presented as a religiously justified project of violent colonization across the Americas.
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He presents the sending of dissenters to America as a way for England to manage religious conflict by letting them build their own kingdom of heaven.
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"But over time, what happens is that the elite, okay, become hereditary. The game becomes how do I, the elite, pass on my privileges..."
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"Okay? So if there are four princes, okay, who are about to inherit the throne, there are four different factions that support them. That..."
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"So they started to chart new areas. Okay? Spain and Portugal primarily. And what they discovered was there's all this new territory in South..."
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"And they were able to do this in order to redeem humanity from the prejudices, the atrocities of civilization. Okay? So that's the argument..."
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"...all, the weather's very cold. Okay? So it's not hospitable to colonization. Second problem is that you have lots of Native Americans in North..."
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"So that's the first thing that happened in Europe. The second thing that happened in Europe is what we call climate change. So about..."
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"Was actually the plague, right? Europeans had these diseases they brought over and that killed most of the local population, okay? So the plague..."
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"1776, War of Independence. And the reality is that, The reality is that, Americans believed this war was sacred. And it was a revolution..."
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"...America and South America. So the Americans embarked on a violent colonization of all lands, okay? Killing many natives and other peoples. Okay, around..."
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"So this started a major conflict. A major conflict between these groups and the king. And these people are called dissenters. And eventually, this..."
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"Okay? With people in power. And so the king was like, guys, if you really believe in these things, go to America. Why? Because..."
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"...what's happening is these colonies are practicing a rapid form of colonization and expansion. What they do is they bring in immigrants, then as..."
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