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Individualist societies are rooted in a long-evolved response to tough environments and often isolated population groups. They are typical of Western Eurasian regions with short growing seasons and mountainous topography, cut with major rivers and almost saturated with temperate forests. Small family units and low birth rates as well as ability driven market trade systems developed to meet the demands of these regions in the ancient past. Fast forward several thousand years and a few empires and you still have an ethic ripe for the industrialism that the material technology and production demands such societies have developed, largely due to their individualist and self dependence cosmology. Powerful in the world as a result of their ability to harness material forces and often very efficient in their wielding of these forces to bring other regions into their markets, they found themselves distrusted and disliked by societies that, though many having markets of their own, had not developed supply or demand for the scope of the industrialist endeavors of the Europeans. This hostility did nothing to diminish the desire on the part of many of the non industrial regions for the level of material security afforded by industrial societies, or at least the better off elements of those societies. Governments forged therein had participation as a given mechanism but with restrictions to keep those deemed less productive, often without consideration for individual aptitude and with broad strokes, out of the controlling bodies. Ie, it was not enough to be alive but one had to gain or inherit status and keep it to be politically consequential. Nothing new here for the planet, as neither was the fact that access was far more open to host members than those brought into the market but only as base producers, not as major coordinators. To be sure, as power can corrupt and also create a fear of loosing, it can also create those who would like to have it lost by the former holder and into their own arms, even with no intention of sustaining it. The more a society becomes open to general participation in democratic process, the more members of groups formally held at bay from such process would seek to rearrange the structure to assure their permanent consequence thenceforth. To be sure market forces were not often kind to entities deemed worthy of only bottom level contribution and even kept such elements by force of law in those contexts. As in any such circumstance, collective resentment and disputes driven by non market, most often ethnic, factors arise and at some point dont seek participation in the big picture but instead to dismantle the system entirely and without concern for responsibility of existing complexities and with an eye for fragilities. In this case the *fragility* becomes the very ethic that orchestrated the initial impulse towards the massive and powerful complex system in total. Having gained more participation in the now enormous civic , ie non production, sector, even a small disaffected group can act as a block and wield affective influence over production sectors and civil sectors alike. With an agenda in conflict with the forces of production as well as the individualist ethic of the original host 'group', and coupled with that a residual or even enhanced altruism of the ancestral host group, you have an atmosphere for a perfect storm of system failure. Without a strong sense of preservation of gradient on the part of the host, the forces of dissipation have easy pickings and are often aided by the host ethic itself. Having said this it is important to say that many new participants in the society may be tremendously productive and even pivotal elements of production and material sustainability. Yet having dropped (or never having had) the segmentary opposition ethic, they are no longer (or never were) factored as part of an opposing segment, regardless of ancestral context, and are, as Individualists, vulnerable to the same dissipative forces. ALSO, many of the host ethnic group (in this case Europeans) have left their geneological associations and aligned with segments opposed to the host complex system. So it is not true that there is only an ethnic rivalry, though such is certainly at root, but has become complicated by a former host ethnic member relinquishing their own inherited association and joining with would be complex gradient reducers, formally composed only of ethnic groups kept out of participation on the basis of ethnicity. Things have become webbed in strange ways indded.

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Uploaded: April 13th, 2008 @ 4:33 pm
Author: GiantFrontalCortex

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