Re: Hegemony or Survival?
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The problem is that a state of war is the natural state of mankind. He kind of glosses over that essential fact.
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War came about following the creation of an agraian soceity. Before that we had conflict, but the weaker party would retreat.
Since humans existed without war for thousands of years, I think it is a reasonable conclusion that it is not a "natural state of man".
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