tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post2460096600477798381..comments2024-03-28T16:58:17.705-04:00Comments on Grim's Hall: Laws IV, 2Grimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-40627696970290720972020-12-14T17:13:07.565-05:002020-12-14T17:13:07.565-05:00Well, it is like the earlier analogy to a contest ...Well, it is like the earlier analogy to a contest involving disparate things like puppet shows, equestrian events, and poetics. Yes, he's talking about a colony. But the colony is just a way of talking about everything. Immigration poses challenges to established states in a similar way; and the massive changes posed by disease or war, mentioned later, are rather like colonists moving to a whole new environment and trying to make the old ways work there. The world changed out from under you, instead of you picking up and moving, but it's a different world now all the same. Grimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-24966927890390137422020-12-14T14:22:47.520-05:002020-12-14T14:22:47.520-05:00...although the badness of their own laws may have...<i>...although the badness of their own laws may have been the cause of the factions which prevailed among them, yet from the force of habit they would fain preserve the very customs which were their ruin, and the leader of the colony, who is their legislator, finds them troublesome and rebellious.</i><br /><br />I know The Athenian is talking about colonies but that's certainly a foreshadow of the now well-known problem of transplants bringing dysfunctional government and social structures with them as they seek to escape an area despoiled by those same disfunctions.Christopher Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00396671757183163171noreply@blogger.com