Every reactionary is still coping with the fact that a Warrior-Aristocracy today doesn’t mean “guy who risks his life for country” but “guy whose capital is invested in military industrial sciences, mercenary corps, etc”
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I also wish that the people who ruled us had to actually put their lives on the line— but technology outmoded this form of life— & the only way it could come back is if billionaires started making Iron Man suits for themselves or something
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The reason Knights ever mattered at all was that armor & weapons were like Owning a Tesla— & you became almost invincible against peasants in wool armed with farming equiptment
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After that— the “managerial science” of engineering popular enthusiasm & organizing “new model armies” of commoners wiped out this world— as early as the English Civil War
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Gunpowder especially— the greatest equalizer of all time— anyone is Zeus throwing thunderbolts when he’s got a gun in his hand.
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