Authority over Truth
@truepeers In general, yes, but there may be some exceptions, probably in highly attenuated (or degraded) forms. I'm thinking about tribes in a strong sense, with vendettas, an honor culture, msrriage exchange, etc. If marriages aren't arranged between families, it's an "ethnic group."
@truepeers If larger technological centers cannot hold all bets are off. Tribal organization is a kind of default form if we revert from the state. I suspect it would look more like the Mafia and cartels than "primitive" communities, but criminal organizations have something tribal to them.
@truepeers I assume you read the Imperium Press substack post I linked to, I linked to it for other reasons but he has made a strong argument for a kind of reversion to the tribal (I haven't read his book yet). Such a reversion would not, I think, map neatly onto current ethnic categories.
@truepeers The re-creation would build upon default settings, though: gangs, etc., which would proliferate in the process of societal breakdown. Yes, I think Gans would agree--how could he dispute that performatives are outside of the true/false binary? What would a "true" imperative be?
@truepeers I wouldn't quite discard the Axial, because I consider the Girardian reading of Christianity inescapable and that changes the nature of the ostensive and imperative. But, yes, I think science and technological truths will get along quite well with the "performatives of the lab."
@truepeers Not necessarily. A real "Dark Age" is possible.