From Philosophical Research
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- town ain't big enough for the two of us -> the fictional motif of cowboys and outlaws or some other assortment of people in a pre-industrial historical period deciding a space cannot be shared and having some kind of shootout over it. note that this can exist in other settings than Westerns — FNaF infamously had a movie sequence modeled after Kurosawa movies which was this.
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- why didn't they just build bigger towns / town more than big enough for the two of us -> the fictional motif of some assortment of people in a pre-industrial historical period deciding that a space actually can be shared instead of having a shootout over it. appears in: Undertale, that one really controversial MLP episode with the bison where people took it as sheer historical revisionism largely because the Zecora episode was so bad. so yeah, this motif isn't always a good thing. I find it weird that non-Marxists would get upset about historical accuracy when the anarchist position of making everything utopian is actually more logically coherent, but it's very interesting to study how people come to that conclusion.
