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Does it necessarily bend toward justice? Or does it just bend towards the survivability and spreadability of ideas and organisms? What if a resilient society
by afarrell 7y ago
Does it necessarily bend toward justice?
Or does it just bend towards the survivability and spreadability of ideas and organisms?
What if a resilient society is also one which is really good at making its members feel alienated and desperate so that they'll join the legions? That society would be able to use that army to dominate the bodies of the Thracians and use Thracian slaves to build resilient physical structures which moved water and wheat to feed the desperate members of the society.
For a deeper exploration of this, I recommend the essay https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/