Basic game theory. You could run this simulation 1,000’s of times and same result: Team A - always defends its own side. Team B - defends its own side sometimes. Team A (the left) wins. There is no stopping it. The only question is how soon until they take total power.
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Yeah, kinda. But that assumes no recruitment and no defections among teams. If Team B attracts smarter, more rational, more successful, more open-minded, more attractive people, by virtue of being less doctrinaire, they may win the long game...
On a long enough timeline, the most cruel and barbaric win because the good are too weak to stop them.
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It didn't turn out like that on Arrakis.
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Read the last chapter of the book....you're stuck at the crucifixion
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This only occurs in specific environments and only for a short time. See game theory.
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By that logic, the world should always become more barbaric, when the opposite has happened. Barbarism is always most superficially appealing, but its rule is fleeting when people wake up to its realities
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No. Otherwise we would all be speaking Mongol.
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Often, yes. But if the most barbaric always won, wouldn't have developed civilization at all...
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The empirical Japanese and National Socialist Germans would be considered to be more barbaric and cruel than the western democracies they were facing and yet still lost.
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Imperial*
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Disagree! Germans were not “barbaric”, they were “intellectual” . That’s what made them more dangerous!
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Barbaric as in cruel and inhuman on an industrial scale. Mass murder of civilians was a science to the Third Reich.
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This is a related thought from the excellent
#VladimirBukovsky I love this quotepic.twitter.com/WcQuUBVf2P
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