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"A leveraging effect where a small amount of violence results in the maximum amount of preference falsification."  
"A leveraging effect where a small amount of violence results in the maximum amount of preference falsification."  


[https://youtu.be/xzjqjU2FOwA?t=1728 #4 Timur Kuran] @ 28:50 Eric describes Saddam's bathhouse. @ 31:45 Eric puts forth his theory.  
[https://youtu.be/xzjqjU2FOwA?t=1728 #4 Timur Kuran] @ 28:50 Eric describes Saddam's Ba'ath party meetings. @ 31:45 Eric puts forth his theory.  


"The point of the violence is to be so picturesque that it works its way into your mind and it won't let you go because somebody did something that was unnecessarily unthinkable; just for the purpose of torturing your brain with knowing that is what is on the other side."
"The point of the violence is to be so picturesque that it works its way into your mind and it won't let you go because somebody did something that was unnecessarily unthinkable; just for the purpose of torturing your brain with knowing that is what is on the other side."
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== Rent-seeking Elites ==
== Rent-seeking Elites ==
== Reputational Violence ==


== Resource Capture ==
== Resource Capture ==
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