alt Hacker NewsNo imagination is necessary: we've been there. The 1800s were exactly that and culminated in two world wars on the next century.
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0xDEAFBEAD • last Sunday at 7:03 AM
Speaking of the 1800s, I wonder if we could learn anything about peace in a multipolar world by studying the Concert of Europe. Might be a good topic for a historian to write a book about. I'm looking right now, and it's kinda sad to see so many books about WW1 and so few about the peaceful period which came before.
horns4lyfe • last Sunday at 2:51 AM
Just the 1800s? We’ve been doing for the past 150 years at least
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You can even go further, _all_ human history had stronger groups taking things from weaker groups. On the classical era of Aristotle and on the paleolithic pre-history. We sometimes forget that humanity can be cruel and work only for self-interest, we like to think that war and pillaging is something from the past, but it will be forever with us