Closest Caesar gets to defeating Asterix's Gaulish village is when he uses economic temptations, not military force, in Mansions of Gods
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yes, that one too. Couldn't fit it into tweet. Slurp ringly insightful. In Jane Jacobs sense, guardian vs commerce= commerce wins.
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re Jane Jacobs, Vetinari's Ankh-Morpork is perhaps the canonical example of guided evolution from guardian to commerce.
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