Differences in status and wealth are always what drives war.”
“And so they’ve thrown us the apple, eh?”
“The fruit of knowledge,” I said, but I had misunderstood which apple he meant.
“Worse than that, the golden one,” he said. “Private property. Status. Now it’s all going to be about fighting over who’s the prettiest one, and war will come out of it.”
“Don’t be grandiose.”
“It isn’t me, it’s history. Differences in status and wealth are always what drives war.”
