Social scale does not rise to the scale of problems that require solving, it collapses to the scale of believable reasons life is worth living
Ozymandias types fundamentally don’t get this, they think social scale is a dependent variable in their personal ambition-equation
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Individuals can “inspire” people with charismatic visions for a while, but it’s only sustainable while there’s money to pay them to believe
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By every account the pyramids were built by well fed volunteers.
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Fine, pyramid-like things built with a degree of coercion
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