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Patron-client relations allow steppe hierarchy without bureaucratic slavery: a person may owe loyalty to a big brother while remaining a free independent fighter.
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Patron-client relations allow steppe hierarchy without bureaucratic slavery: a person may owe loyalty to a big brother while remaining a free independent fighter.
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"Okay? All right? But now your problem is, wait a minute. If the eldest boy inherits everything, what do the other boys do? Well,..."
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"...-client relationship. And all that means is that it's like a mafia, right? I'm the big brother. You're the little brother. So maybe I..."
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"...You've described Donald Trump as an anarchist who behaves like a mafia boss with no idea of consequences. And you've sent this message to..."
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"...to Biden and these types of people, you know, the Clinton mafia. Maybe it's going to favor certain types of candidates that are going..."
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"global trade to America basically being a mafia state, being pirates, and allowing you to use sea lanes and giving you trade access. Okay,..."
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"...and its former colonies and allies okay because Athens is a mafia state now what's important for us to understand is that because of..."
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"...this war okay Sicily so remember um the Athenians it's a mafia state what they do is they collect tribute from the allies but..."
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"...And they enter secret societies and become, you know, like these mafia gangs."
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"...military, including government, including the media, including culture, including crime, the mafia. Okay? Every aspect of society that you can imagine is being controlled..."
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"...war when athens the athenian empire which had become basically a mafia state basically decided to go to war against the entire world and..."
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"...from an early age, he wanted to trust powerful patrons, criminal mafia bosses, secret police heads, revolutionaries, right? And then he was absolutely loyal..."
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"...wanted to control all of Greece. Okay? They basically were a mafia organization that was forcing these islands in the Aegean Sea to pay..."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang鈥檚 lecture on why the so-called barbarians repeatedly defeat civilization: empires turn innovation into bureaucracy, while the steppe turns geography, animals, inheritance, oath, myth, and violence into mobile social power.
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