Quote:
Originally posted by The Reaper
"Only great and general battles can produce great results"
- Karl von Clausewitz
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You guys don't agree with this one, do you?
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Clausewitz is right about war and politics, but I think he has it conceptually backwards.
War is the natural state of man. Civil society is a contractual attempt to avoid war. War and civil "politics" serve the same purposes and fundamentally are the same thing -- methods of dispute resolution. But before there were civilized methods of dispute resolution (such as my trade), there was constant war and unpleasantness. You know, the life of man was solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short or something like that.
