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In other places there has been discussion of civil war, of what happens if the center cannot hold.

I have some ideas on this (I'm against it. I've made several speeches against it at Making Light One (buried in a long thread, and lots of the pieces worth reading; in this context for more of my thinking on the subject. It's in the interplay between myself and Lance) and Two which is a specific comment on lots of things, some of which are going on; still).

So, in the event that peaceful means can't correct the course of state, and some more drastic means is employed... how do you see the situation resolving itself?

What happens should the body politic reache the breaking point and chooses to excercise its right to "alter or abolish," the Nation as it is presently configured?

I'll give my ideas later, when the rest of you have chimed in.

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Somewhat tangentally - I'm reading a history book, The Search for Modern China, which starts its story in 1600, at the end of the Ming dynasty. The picture presented in the first couple chapters is fairly unsettling. Details that don't quite yet match, like widespread famine, are cold comfort.

Crazy(and hoping I'm only jumping at shadows, despite everything she's reading... but still marking where she's buried that hatchet)Soph