Comments on: Adopting a Lifestyle Brand https://www.isegoria.net/2010/04/adopting-a-lifestyle-brand/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 21 May 2026 16:19:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Ross https://www.isegoria.net/2010/04/adopting-a-lifestyle-brand/comment-page-1/#comment-620 Ross Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:53:35 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=5360#comment-620 This is a total shot from the hip, but I wonder how much one might profitably draw a useful analogy between Dubai, oil, and underclass and early post-revolutionary America, land resources and African slaves?

Of course, there are a million ways this analogy breaks down (individual vs. tribal lifestyle; 18th versus 21st
century culture and technology influence; democratic versus hierarchical governance, etc.) but that’s not of immediate interest.

What would a savvy, neutral historian (kind of like Jared Diamond… kind of…) say about any parallels between these two evolutionary states and their likely future paths?

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