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     OP - March 25, 2014, 12:00 PM
    Just reading Charles Mann 1491 about the pre Columbian Americas.

    He quotes an Archaeologist Alan Kolata, discussing predatory states. "This was not the centrally administered military power that term conjures..... "State religion and imperial ideology performed much the same work as military conquest, but at significantly lower cost." .. fearful of the supernatural powers controlled by its priesthood, local rulers subordinated themselves."

    Did Uncle Mo and his followers refine and perfect a new form of warfare, one that does not require armies as much because people submit to smoke and mirrors?
    When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.


    A.A. Milne,

    "We cannot slaughter each other out of the human impasse"
  • Predatory States
     Reply #1 - March 25, 2014, 12:59 PM
    Interesting take.
    `But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
     `Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here. I'm mad.  You're mad.'
     `How do you know I'm mad?' said Alice.
     `You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'
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