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Reading The Fifth Sun made me think of this: There is typically a divide that emerges very quickly between the people who are actually themselves pushing the frontier and the establishment that created them. Cortes needs legal loopholes to make it seem like he’s not disobeying the Spanish crown, and this divide continues immediately with the Spanish viceroys, governors, encomenderos, etc. Up to the criollos that declare independence. Obviously similar things happen in North America also, but this is happening right now with the internet. Some east coast elites defected to Silicon Valley to push on the frontier and there has been an ongoing struggle between that establishment and those pushing on the frontier for almost 30 years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Sun:_A_New_History_of_the_Aztecs
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