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—“Out of life’s school of war, that which does not kill us, only serves to make us stronger.”—

You can love that statement or fear it. You can seek out those wars to make yourself stronger, or avoid them and remain weaker. Aristocracy like science only learns through testing and failure. Science runs tests – luxury goods, so that all of us may benefit. The wealthy run tests of consumption so that all of us may one day have luxuries as consumer goods. Aristocracy runs tests, so that other people do not have to, and can merely learn from imitation. The common law records our successes and prohibitions and society evolves without intent, every constantly to a ‘stronger’ state, than the one before it.

Curt