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His takes on how governments will try to ignite religious fervor in order to manufacture consent for war was fairly topical.
— Nov 01, 2026 11:03PM
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Jack Smyth
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Central take in this section is that Monarchy overtime disintegrates into aristocracy which overextends itself to civil unrest and then to democracy. However it seems like he thinks that’s an inevitability of government, which it could be, but I also feel like it could be a change in social context. If society changes over hundreds of years that’s not necessarily a systemic failure of government. People change!
— Oct 19, 2026 09:57PM
Jack Smyth
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A fucking hundred pages of Introductions and Prefaces. Spit it out bro.
— Oct 15, 2026 09:30PM
Jack Smyth
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This shit is already menacing, I have not read a political theory book since 2018.
— Oct 14, 2026 09:56PM