Cultural change that enables people to think in terms of cooperation, rather than enmity and strife, is the conceptual change from the language and state of mind of a closed agrarian society, the forerunner of the nation-state, to that of an open technological one.

— Shulamith Hareven The Vocabulary of Peace: Life, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East (1995)

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