"depriving them the pleasure of mingling with the rest of The City" if you have to force people to hang out with you, just a thought, maybe they don't actually consider it a pleasurehttps://twitter.com/patio11/status/1021833712395120640 …
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like part of me wants to say people in any time are going to subvert or bypass whatever strictures you lay up and the core question is *what people want to do*, build society/legacy or enrich themselves
and it wasn't so much that "the system" used to work better than it does now, but that it involved (enough--leeches exist in every time) people motivated by a common spirit more than base desire
but on the other hand maybe all it is is access to outside resources that can be extracted from non-members, acquisitiveness reigns in all periods, and enrichment of the public is always a mere side effect
I've been reading about balance of power a lot recently and it seems that the common thread is, when power is unclear and widely distributed, constant conflict over it
whether by improving internally or subjugating outside parties for the purpose of building one's own power relative to rivals, or warring against rivals to increase one's own power while breaking theirs
and every period of pax whatevera is always a young empire, secure in its power over all in a position to threaten it, so conflict abates and internal security becomes a given
and it could be a mix of legitimacy, fear, and skillful application of power that accomplishes this! but it could also just be, coasting on the fresh plunders of said expansion. I'm not sure
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