“What is primitive society? It is a multiplicity of undivided communities which all obey the same centrifugal logic. What institution at once expresses and guarantees the permanence of this logic? It is war, as the truth of relations between communities, as the principal sociological means of promoting the centrifugal force of dispersion against the centripetal […]
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What is it good for
October 31st, 2018 · No Comments
Tags: Politics & Law · The Forever War · Tolstoy
Clarity
June 29th, 2011 · 1 Comment
“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.” — […]
Tags: Economics · Michael Lewis · Tolstoy