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May 1, 2016

Comprised of six different ethnicities, most of which did not want to live with each other, the only way Yugoslavia could be kept together was through a strong totalitarian regime.

Interestingly, the people most able to "get along" were the educated "cognitive" types whilst the masses maintained their grudges.

The failure of the policing state meant that natural demographic forces could assert themselves, the rest is history. Yugoslavia failed because it need a strong state to force Croats, Serbs and Slovenes to be Yugoslavs and it was an example of trying to fit men to the model instead of fitting the model to men.The Social Pathologist: Human Nature and Political Society.

Posted by gerardvanderleun at May 1, 2016 8:28 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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In other words, the more different the people, the more stronger the state - it has to be, otherwise chaos.

But the state brings it's own version of chaos, for different people react differently to the states iron fist.

Essentially, badness automatically occurs when diversity is prevalent.

Summation:
Diversity = division + chaos
Similarity = continuity + order

This isn't rocket surgery and is the way all of history has performed.

Posted by: ghostsniper [TypeKey Profile Page] at May 2, 2016 4:33 AM

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