weird to have a historically bourgeois society feature this sort of thing i would have previously identified it as a feature of decadent autocracy maybe its more just a feature of government /scope/ than anything else? idk
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Red Rising might have been differently interesting if it had explored the proliferation of decadent Golds rather than focusing on the small subset of them who remained terrifyingly competent via bloody academic treatment guess Dune considered this as well hmmm
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100% exactly right. Figurative, but also sometimes literal, eunuchs.
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it is easier to optimize to a narrower band of proficiencies effective in status gameshttps://twitter.com/squirrelspcsuit/status/1433196902950993920 …
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controversial take: the surge in trans is just reinventing janissaries
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i think to sustain extreme inequalities of power across generations, the ruling class has to deputize power to a bureaucratic class that is unable to reproduce power for itself
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as chinese dynasties became entrenched, they increasingly relied on eunuchs as a way to keep centralized power out of the hands of the aristocracy (distant relatives of the imperial clan)
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Eunuchs always come to commit great acts of cruelty at the end of an age.
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not themselves of course
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I remember the olden days where the internet in the freshmen boys’ dorm became functionally unusable after midnight due to all the anime torrenting and porn
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