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- Dec 2023
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the idea of a game is really important and the rules of the game so what's happened is that to the extent that that we've we 00:39:33 have lost the common understanding of our reality then people start attacking the rules of the game and and that's you know going back to my work on conflict
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for: adjacency - rules of the game - violence, dangers of not playing by the rules of the game
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adjacency between
- rules of the game
- violence
- adjacency statement
- When people cannot agree on the rules of the democratic game, we are just one step away from violence
- Homer-Dixon explores the relationship between environmental breakdown and violence in an earlier book
- If you believe your "opponent" is not playing by the rules of the game, then they are outside the moral ambit of your community, and you can justify violence
- Their status as a human being is no longer legitimate and they are dehumanized. Violence is now possible
- Whenever a group feels another group is not playing by the rules of the game, it is a very dangerous situation as violence can be justified on these grounds
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