“If your people are organically organized, clannish, tribal, egalitarian and hav

—“If your people are organically organized, clannish, tribal, egalitarian and have a thing for “purity” then they will also have high trust. You can expand, but you can’t build an empire or you’ll destroy it. Empires require bureaucracy and hierarchy as well as the extension of kinship to others. People that can’t (and didn’t!) do extended families can’t do empires. I guess It should be obvious.”—

Very good. Markets for nations. Markets for regions. Markets for whatever we want – among our kin. We can build a civilization but we cannot build an empire.

An empire by definition crosses ethnic and cultural lines. a civilization by definition is defined but ethnic and cultural lines.

America is an empire and cannot therefore persist as a european civilization under common law.