hmm seems like long peace is rare in history we've functionally been at peace for a long time
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pax britannia was a solid hundred years romans managed a couple hundred epsilon a few minor civil wars and border skirmishes hm guess it came and went in china wouldnt wanna be stuck in between though
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I used to spend a lot of time looking out my window at boats on the lake and be absolutely at peacepic.twitter.com/yvymr1bBqh
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Now there's always foreboding These boats can mean something else when you dwell on itpic.twitter.com/ylUqRXyE3g
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Thinking about the of pleasure boats in a Chinese dynasty--the Tang? The Song?--painting summer waterways with their gaudy sails, before war came
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aesthetic af but mostly it bums me out and i dont want anyone to have to live through the intermediate stagepic.twitter.com/0lxgVRIQaB
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Replying to @eigenrobot
yes this can produce exquisite art, like Zhang Dai squatting in the ruins of his mansion remembering his life of refined luxury before the Tartars came through the pass. but i don't want it to happen to us
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oh YES I think this was covered in a brief biography of his that would do it F
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