2. So I see centuries of heroic effort trying to solve an almost unsolvable problem of geography, populations, trade, and incentives, and like fukuyama and probably every other thinker in history, see only one failure – the conversion of islam from confucian like widsom to dogma.
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@_MEeeao Thanks. 1. We tend to moralize the history of the middle eastern empires or treat them as sports teams applying different tactics rather than the history of the sequence of problems each sought to solve. Unfortunately, they couldn’t solve the central problem.
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