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I found he wrote this on his letter to shareholders… > “As Samuel Huntington has written, the rise of the West was not made possible ‘by the superiority of its
by animal_spirits 2y ago
I found he wrote this on his letter to shareholders…
> “As Samuel Huntington has written, the rise of the West was not made possible ‘by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion ... but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence.’
“He continued: ‘Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.’”
Yikes..
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- JumpCrisscross 2y agoWhat is the yikes? Martial superiority isn't exactly a groundbreaking metric by which to measure societies. It's also an essential one--sovereignty depends on it. That will be true as long as international relations are anarchic.
- animal_spirits 2y agoMight makes right is descriptive of the history of civilization, however I do not accept it is the - only- descriptor.