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    Category: Localism

    The more you get stuck in the past at past historical slights, the worse your progress. Move on; getting rich is the best revenge. In 1982 Assad (père) & warlord Frangié blew up our house in Amioun. I got rich & we built a bigger one. My way of saying F***k you. You get even more of a revenge (& one with the sweetest taste of F***k you) when a grandson of Frangié (who blew up your house), seeing this post (below), complains about you, calling you “arrogant”.

    PRIVATE TWITTER & LOCALISM Both @rorysutherland & Elinor Ostrom discuss behavior inside a “club”, neither public nor private. Rory: airline lounges not for comfort, but you feel shielded & relax better & can leave your computer on seat to got get coffee. That’s #localism 1/n 2) Likewise by closing Twitter, participants feel more responsible. Noticed at least 95% drop in the usual internet vandal polluting threads. Will reopen Twitter temporarily for a good Twitter fight or to make a journo accountable. 3) Made a yuuge mistake, a decade ago: two members tried to make me join the Century Association (club), most difficult club in NY. They took me to lunch. I refrained from applying as food much, much inferior to that in restaurants. Didn’t realize food may taste better in a club.

    Actually he got it wrong. Nomads live in tribes and are extrrrrrrremely tribal. There is an untranslatable expression in classical Arabic (present in Ibn Khaldun but under a slightly different meaning) called عصبية that relates to such tribalism.You can distinguish between Semitic tribes & Levantine-Greek settled population as follows. Just open the Old Testament. People are defined by their lineage, X son of X son of X son of X… Same for Arab “clans”. For settled L-G: Athenadoros of Tyre, Antiochos of Laodicia, etc.