tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post7585827324811568602..comments2023-08-27T10:10:30.032+02:00Comments on Laws of Silence: Size mattersDauradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296473494856239751noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-18185166477124472232012-06-14T09:00:54.255+02:002012-06-14T09:00:54.255+02:00Perhaps what we'll see is the US fall apart ju...Perhaps what we'll see is the US fall apart just as the USSR did....problem is the US doesn't have the ethnic concentrations around which the new states could coalesce. In the US it might just be all against all. A theme which will reappear in my "Zombie" post.<br /><br />I don't think I did a good enough job with explaining my thoughts on how the "growth imperative&Dauradehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06296473494856239751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-89978292501602088692012-06-14T07:11:27.892+02:002012-06-14T07:11:27.892+02:00In other words, the presence of a frontier encoura...In other words, the presence of a frontier encourages individualism.<br /><br />On the other hand, it seems to me that the experience of the U.S. (with the western frontier) and the Soviet Union (with the eastern frontier, Siberia) would seem to show that fate is not determined by the presence of a frontier? <br /><br />Or maybe frontier theory neatly accounts for similarities b/t the two The Gidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04222098025692029885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-10071447242089969282012-06-14T07:07:01.163+02:002012-06-14T07:07:01.163+02:00Thanks for this. I'll have to spend some time ...Thanks for this. I'll have to spend some time reading the links before having any meaningful comments, but an immediate thought is that this would seem to collude with "frontier theory" -- if you are big enough to have frontier to explore, you have room to explore and you have the basis for insisting that individuals can strike out and make something of themselves. If you are not The Gidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04222098025692029885noreply@blogger.com