Whereas we are an army, practice law, truth, adversarialism, markets and avoid brutality, evolve rapidly, escape stagnation, but we can’t expand by forcible integration. This is a profound lesson for us. Our Rome and modern civ fail because of TOLERANCE. Us fast, china slow
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@bishkebab3 @Coronakrise5 So Confucious directed everyone in society to function as an extended family. So (a) no law only command, (b) reasonableness and harmony, not truth, adversarialism and markets, (c) brutality, (d) stagnation but (e) success at forced incremental expansion, conquest, integration.
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