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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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Jiang says the non-patriarchal system could love all children of the tribe, while patriarchy narrows love to one’s own children.
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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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"...brother. You're the little brother. And this creates the idea of tribes. Okay? Does that make sense? What's really important here is that in..."
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"...own children. But we all love all the children of our tribe. Okay? So that's what humans can do. We can love each other...."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang’s 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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