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Great analysis. The utopian dream lives on.

For the tribe, violence is honor and honor is life. If you are a pacifist tribe your neighboring tribe will kill all your men and take all your land, women and children. Welcome to Earth. Author and former Green Beret Jim Morris wrote an article basically saying mankind are chimps with nukes. Chimps instinctively patrol the perimeter of their territory and raid the territory of their chimp neighbors. Just add a little mote intelligence and an opposable thumb and here we are.

https://www.amazon.in/Chimps-Nukes-Jim-Morris-ebook/dp/B00OTZB71I

From Kipling's The Gods of the Copybook Headings:

When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.

They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.

But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,

And the Gods of the Copybook Heading said: "Stick to the Devil you know."

My short essay thereupon:

https://drp314.substack.com/p/thoughts-on-kiplings-the-gods-of

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