I’ve recently read"The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World" and want to hear what all of you think the answer is, because I feel like the book was missing something in its thesis and I am not very sure what that is.
I’ve recently read"The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World" and want to hear what all of you think the answer is, because I feel like the book was missing something in its thesis and I am not very sure what that is.
Its cheaper than two continents of gold and silver but its not “like air”. Permanent war. Always on the home front, not the frontier. Western Europe ground on for like a millennia without any empire establishing itself.
same with every other place save China (but still sometimes even China)
Think of the life of a rabbit. That little thing lives the life of a soldier deep in enemy territory. The rabbit’s life is a state of war.
Without a system of police to monopolize violence, allowing individuals to therefore stop managing violence themselves, the life of a conscious entity is wartime.