Suppose you’re waiting at the DMV. The wait, per usual, is dragging on
and the queue is long. Suddenly somebody enters the facility without
checking in and walks straight up to a window. The person assures the
patiently waiting crowd that the DMV employee is his niece. He proceeds
to have his vehicle-related business taken care of. For most Americans,
this would be utterly intolerable. However in Eurasian culture,
specifically in ex-Soviet countries, this is not only considered
acceptable but is expected. If for instance, the DMV employee told her
uncle to wait like everybody else, onlooking strangers would sneer at
her with contempt: “That’s your family, how could you do that to them?”.
All throughout Eurasian culture, we find these kinds of relations being
employed by the ruling class to better maintain their domination over
society.
https://cosmonaut.blog/2020/09/24/henry-hales-theory-of-patronal-politics-a-marxist-perspective/
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