Re:Saudi Aramco Is the WeWork of Energy with Pulled IPO
by ethbro on Monday October 21, 2019 @11:44AM
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As a professor of political science once told our class...
"How do you solve long-running civil war?"
"Murder all the grandmothers."
His point being that they were (a) the only ones who survived into old age (everyone else getting murdered) & (b) were thereby the ones educating a new generation in the hatreds of the old.
He was only half-joking.
But it really made me think about, as you say, just how long it takes for institutions to be built in a society. Which is order-of-"the time it takes for mindsets to change (usually via death) or new generations to rise into power (~40 years)".
I'd never really thought about it that way before.
"How do you solve long-running civil war?"
"Murder all the grandmothers."
His point being that they were (a) the only ones who survived into old age (everyone else getting murdered) & (b) were thereby the ones educating a new generation in the hatreds of the old.
He was only half-joking.
But it really made me think about, as you say, just how long it takes for institutions to be built in a society. Which is order-of-"the time it takes for mindsets to change (usually via death) or new generations to rise into power (~40 years)".
I'd never really thought about it that way before.