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November 16, 2023 - January 17, 2024
“men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please.”
Statistically, throughout history, societies that were engaged in elevated trade also had a higher propensity for war.
The reality of economics is quite simple: Why trade when you can invade?
humankind “is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischances; injustice, with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter . . . and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; And the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
Plato’s observation that “books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything”
Nothing is certainly more precious in human affairs, nothing more esteemed than freedom.”
“in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.”
We did not get to choose our own adventure.
For better or for worse, our destinies and interactive histories have been forever entwined, trapped in a single story of struggle and survival with ultimately the same outcome.