how would you know if your observations are merely the result of historians collecting and narrativizing events to create a history that gives you the impression that empire is cyclical? and who told you that empire is the main way of understanding past events?
I think this might be a key misunderstanding. I'm not saying that human nature is immutable. I'm saying that it is historically *consistent*, absent the will to recognize and change that behavior.
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what is human nature, then?
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Fight, feast, fuck, not necessarily in that order.
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And it is our choice (heavily influenced by underlying societal factors, of course), to either continue that consistency, or do something different. Most people choose the consistency. Again, I don't see how this can be argued against the historical record.
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my dude where is your empirical evidence that "choosing" is a thing that exists, lol
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