Re: more electoral defeats for the feudalists

On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 01:16:25 +0100, peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Peter_Bj=F8rn_Perls=F8?=) wrote:

ruetheday@xxxxxxxxxx <ruetheday@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Peter Bjørn Perlsø wrote:
Bob Kolker <nowhere@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Peter Bjørn Perlsø wrote:

Sure it can, but society will likely be either transformed or fragmented
into smaller societies, or perhaps clans.

Meaning the original society did not survive. Just as I said.

Why not revert to hunter-gathering while we are at it?

Bob Kolker

Nice strawman, Bob, but no cigar. Somalia and other anarchies has not
reverted to hunter-gathering because the state was absent.

They're not that far from it.

Oh really? Even Coca COla had a botting plant in Mogadishu.

?? "Even" Coca-Cola? Coke is a franchise operation. If someone
thinks they can make money flogging Coke in a country-sized insane
asylum, Coke will license him. Coke does not build the bottling
plants, local entrepreneurs do. IOW, the fact that there is a Coke
bottler in Mogadishu proves nothing but that someone with more money
than brains thinks they can make money from the Coke brand there.

What has filled the void left by the
collapse of the state in Somalia? Warlords, pirates, and Islamic
militias, not mutual protection agencies.

Actually, the militias served the role of private defense agencies.

No, they most certainly did not, as they were fundamentally political,
ethnic, clan and religious organizations, not businesses.

-- Roy L
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