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author | bnewbold <bnewbold@robocracy.org> | 2016-05-01 21:32:55 -0400 |
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diff --git a/journal_import/2011-07-25-societies-everywhere-fall-between-two-extremes.rst b/journal_import/2011-07-25-societies-everywhere-fall-between-two-extremes.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..27c0758 --- /dev/null +++ b/journal_import/2011-07-25-societies-everywhere-fall-between-two-extremes.rst @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +Quote +##### +:date: 2011-07-25 10:59:31 +:author: bnewbold +:category: quote +:slug: 2011-07-25-societies-everywhere-fall-between-two-extremes +:status: published + +Societies everywhere fall between two extremes. First, there are +societies in which every person works, and no one is demeaned by his or +her toil. In these societies, individuals pride themselves on their +workmanship, and they exhibit a natural concern for the welfare of their +entire community. As examples of such “productive” societies, Veblen +mentions Native Americans, the Ainus of Japan, the Todas of the Nilgiri +hills and the bushmen of Australia. Second, there are “barbarian” +societies, in which a single dominant class (usually of warriors) seizes +the wealth and produce of others through force or fraud—think ancient +Vikings, Japanese shoguns and Polynesian tribesmen. Farmers labor for +their livelihood and warriors expropriate the fruits of that labor. +Exploitative elites take no part in the actual production of wealth; +they live off the toil of others. Yet far from being judged criminal or +indolent, they are revered by the rest of the community. In barbarian +societies, nothing is as manly, as venerated, as envied, as the lives of +warriors. Their every trait—their predatory practices, their dress, +their sport, their gait, their speech—is held in high esteem by all. + +— `Etay Zwick in The +Point <http://www.thepointmag.com/archive/predatory-habits/>`__ + +.. raw:: html + + </p> |