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.

  • intensely_human
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    11 months ago

    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.