A thing just came to my mind. The french revolution had a slogan; Liberté, Egalité et Fraternité (Freedom, Equality and Fraternity).

If you think about it, the three main ideologies of the XXth century can be reduced to this same tripartite principle, based on which of the three is seen as the most important.

Liberalism: Freedom is the most important value.

Socialism: Equality is the most important one.

Fascism: Fraternity (Understood as unity of the people, be it ethnic, religious or racially) is the most important value.

I already brought up long ago the comparison with second-temple judaism, although this one was far less clear and not so convincing. But I think the french revolution slogan kind of predicts this ideological conflict. After all it was the french revolution that served as the basis of much of Europe's future political history.

My homeland of Argentina is likely to end up falling very badly now. Last sunday were primary elections, where candidates are chosen to take part in the general election coming out in October. The most voted candidate was Javier Milei, a self-proclaimed anarcho-capitalist with a strong discourse on ending the political "caste" and basically full on extreme measures to improve the economy. His voter base consisted of disenchanted people, mostly young, and mostly from the interior (He got "only" 17% in Buenos Aires, while 30% at national level and almost 50% in some provinces), and in contrast to other right-wing populists his base is not much concerned with culture wars stuff apart from some specific issues (Milei himself is very conservative on some stuff, such as abortion and being anti-sex education; while very progressive in others such as being all for polyamory and same-sex "marriage", though being against marriage even being a thing), instead it focused purely on economic issues.

Regardless of one's individual positioning and wether his proposals would work or not, problem is, he has won no governors (In fact in all governor elections prior to presidential ones his candidates got mostly under 5% except for a few), and no majority in neither senate nor deputies, with a very small team. Added to this, the fact kirchnerism has ended third with only 27% of votes in total will mean they won't take this guy Milei happily. The possibilities of an inmediate overthrowing if he wins at the time he would ascend in december are very high, and general chaos is guaranteed. I heard rumours that civil war is likely, and I can see kirchnerists pulling out a january 6-like event in december.

All this combined with the fact we're just heading into hyperinflation (The central bank devaluated 22% this monday) and the general economic problems and population unhappiness means Argentina is very likely to collapse entirely this (Southern hemisphere) summer. I feel scared by living here but I hope to manage out. In any case this is likely to cause high commotion internationally, as Argentina also produces high amounts of food which combined with Russia and Ukraine thing means even less food globally.

In exactly two weeks from now there are going to be primary elections in my home country of Argentina. Here everybody votes in the primaries so they're basically an official poll; each coalition can offer multiple candidates of which only the most voted one goes to the generals (In October); and also coalitions need to get over 1,5% of the vote to go on the generals. The risk of collapse and even civil war are very high, polarization is at an absurd level. Here a recap of the candidates that will likely pass onto the generals:

1. Union for the Fatherland (Officialist, kirchnerism, peronism, left-leaning authcenter)
   Sergio Massa: This guy has been switching political parties since he began his career. In 2015 he promised to destroy Kirchnerism and now is with them. Because of that pretty umpopular, but still their main option and the one who will likely win.
   Juan Grabois: A young lad who appeared recently, sort of a christian socialist. He will catch the vote of the most radical kirchnerists and is possible after being eliminated in the primaries part of his voters may go to the trotskyists instead than to Massa

2. Together for Change (Main opposition, Macrism, catch-all but generally center-right leaning)
   Horacio Rodríguez Larreta: Mayor of Buenos Aires, creepy dude, reptilian wants to reconciliate with the kirchnerists. Really weak, if he wins doubt he rules for more than two years. He is a progressive keynesian weirdly allied to conservative evangelicals. If he loses the primaries much of his votes will go to Massa
   Patricia Bullrich: More radically anti-kirchnerist. Was a far-left terrorist in the 70s, similarly to Massa has been switching parties since and now appeals to conservatives. If she loses much of her votes will go to Milei.

3. Freedom Advances (Right-unity)
   Javier Milei: Anarcho-capitalist economist, probably autistic, supports organ market, identifies as catholic but it's also against the institution of marriage and he practices free love; climate change denier. Weirdly enough allied with religious conservatives and the local alt-right.

There's also the trotskyists but even with Grabois' votes will probably not get beyond 5%.

Yeah Argentina is screwed

Rudyard mentioned the early middle ages/dark ages are the West's "Heroic Era", and that's why most fantasy written here (Think LOTR, ASOIAF, Dragonlance, etc) is generally based on a scenario inspired by that time.

So I'm in the process of writing a South American inspired epic fantasy and I was wondering would there be an equivalent to a heroic era for Latin America? Tbh I already followed the concept of going with the middle ages for my story, but if there is any better equivalent what do you said it would be? The independence revolutions? The spanish reconquista? The pre-columbian times? Colonization?

Is the authoritarian family structure native to pastoral and herding peoples, such as those of the eurasian steppe?

When we look at the people's who have this system, the vast majority of them are Indo-Europeans (Germans, Celts, Greeks, Gypsies). We also find that the Koreans follow it. The Koreans were originally a herding tribe from Manchuria, similar to mongols and turks. Even the major god in Korean mythology, Dangun, is basically the same as Tengri.

Now the odd ones in family structure are the modern mongols and turks, but considering the fact they've been under Chinese and Islamic rule for so long wouldn't be surprised that changed their family system. This may apply to the Russians too.

The jews meanwhile were also a herding people, while the Japanese is a bit complicated. The Yayoi who settled it came from Korea, but were unrelated to the steppe Koreans but rather the indigenous inhabitants of the Penninsula. Perhaps they also were authoritarian, or the system comes from the Ainu?

Anyways what do you think, was the Authoritarian family structure endemic to herding peoples, specially in the Eurasian Steppe?