Re:Bound to Fail: The Rise and Fall of the Liberal Internati...
by piva00 on Friday January 07, 2022 @12:37PM
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How is that stabilising though?
It starts to sound demi-religious. You shall not disobey the word of a larger power/figure.
And then society starts to rift over time, through the interpretation by different sects about what the words meant.
Over centuries you get a pretty twisted view of the original values, interpreted by a few different sects, and an ever growing wedge between those interpretations that gets harder and harder to reconcile.
It starts to sound demi-religious. You shall not disobey the word of a larger power/figure.
And then society starts to rift over time, through the interpretation by different sects about what the words meant.
Over centuries you get a pretty twisted view of the original values, interpreted by a few different sects, and an ever growing wedge between those interpretations that gets harder and harder to reconcile.
Just like most major religions.