ZOMIA

[Vutulaki-san]

The presenter is also known for some other book/lectures entitled 'The Art of Not Being Governed'.

Haven't explored yet, will post when I do. Maybe someone will beat me to it

I've got the book but haven't had a chance to start it yet. I'm currently reading The Law of the Somalis by van Notten. It explains the Somali anarchic system of law and justice. Very interesting stuff and shows how a society can have laws without a government to dictate them.

Yeah worked out well for those licorice sticks dinit?

[Som-Pong]

Somalis are the worst fucking people on earth, I challenge anyone to prove me wrong.

[Count Iblis]

The presenter is also known for some other book/lectures entitled 'The Art of Not Being Governed'.

Haven't explored yet, will post when I do. Maybe someone will beat me to it

I've got the book but haven't had a chance to start it yet. I'm currently reading The Law of the Somalis by van Notten. It explains the Somali anarchic system of law and justice. Very interesting stuff and shows how a society can have laws without a government to dictate them.

Yeah worked out well for those licorice sticks dinit?

Worked great until they decided to have a government. It all went to shit pretty quickly after that.

[Luigi]

Those regions may not have had official states, but they did have authority. Usually local and often religious, but authority non the less. Also dont believe it when they tell you the nation state was created in the treaty of westphalia or anytime after that. Humans have always been tribal, and tribalism has always informed identity and the actions of states. I debated a prof about this back in the day and his best argument he kept falling back on was "how can a state truly be a nation state if there have always been a small amount of minorities who dont identify with the nation?" Of course 100% of inhabitants liking the system is no logical criteria, and if it was the condition has never been satisfied to this day.

[Devil's Advocate]

I'm surprised that they haven't been liberated and introduced to democracy. I guess there's no oil in those mountains.