AFTER VIOLENCE: 3R, RECONSTRUCTION, RECONCILIATION ...

inter-state [1] outer oppression [2] outer exploitation
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intra-state [3] inner oppression [4] inner exploitation
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In our globalizing world a process can start at any point. Very
classical is the [1]-[2]-[3]-[4] sequence: a country attacks
another, starts exploiting (like robbing gold, slaves), starts
oppressing to control the revolts and discovers that can best be
done from the inside, rewards them by encouraging their
exploitation of their own, against a commission, of course. Today
[4]-[3]-[2]-[1] may be a better model of what happens in former
socialist countries: there is inner exploitation, it is solidified
by inner oppression (e.g., fake elections), this serves enormous
outer exploitation (e.g., by getting cheap access to raw
materials), which then may or may not have to be protected by
outer oppression, e.g., as maneuvers against "terrorists"
(probably meaning those against [4] and [3]). Clear distinctions
between intra-state and inter-state are illusory.
25. The nation is also a very frequently referred to as a Family.
26. Monuments tend to be underestimated. But they are [1] public
meaning a point of reference for everybody, somehow owned together
(even if some may disown them), [2] very durable, made to last,
chiseled in heavy stone, etched in steel and [3] there is often a
committee and hence minimum consensus behind them. Great care is
exercised not to attract public controversy to a monument design
to build public consensus.
27. Thus, the most frequently encountered monument in the world,
the man on horseback, usually carries an inscription with some
space (battle?) and time (date?, at the very least of his birth
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