Re: more electoral defeats for the feudalists

<royls@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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.

yada yada.

My point was just one example that Somalia is and was nowhere near a
hunter-gathering society as some fools claim.


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.

Does not contradict that the militias served as PDAs.


-- regards , Peter B. P. - http://titancity.com/blog
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