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Re:Things I Learned from René Girard by api on Thursday March 28, 2024 @03:36AM (#39848622)
Oh definitely. It allows violent conflict to be replaced by… well… culture wars, and murder with voting people out or maybe legal battles. That’s massively more civilized and avoids destroying all of society’s accumulated wealth in destructive conflicts.

Avoiding burning everything to the ground all the time might be the main reason democracies tend to be wealthier.

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Re:Things I Learned from René Girard by 082349872349872 on Thursday March 28, 2024 @07:41AM (#39849938)
Switzerland was considered a poor country in the 19th century, but didn't get bombed to rubble in either 1914-1918 or in 1936-1945, and so now it's considered rich.

I wonder how solarpunk continental europe might've been now if it had somehow avoided the "short 20th century".

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