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RE: Venezuela Isn’t Just in Crisis, But Faces “Total Societal Collapse”
The key to societal stability is what evolutionary biologist Peter Turchin calls aasabiyah, an Arabic word that means roughly the willingness to trust strangers. It is a delicate thing. I wrote more about the idea here.
http://www.intergalacticmedicineshow.com/cgi-bin/mag.cgi?do=columns&vol=randall_hayes&article=002