From Bandits to Rulers: Two Thousand Years of Maximizing the Cost of Survival
Reading Wu Si’s The Law of Blood Payment (《血酬定律》), one sentence hammered into my brain like a nail: Whether protecting the people or harming them, vi...
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Reading Wu Si’s The Law of Blood Payment (《血酬定律》), one sentence hammered into my brain like a nail: Whether protecting the people or harming them, vi...
读吴思《血酬定律》,有一句话像钉子一样敲进脑子: 无论是保民还是害民,暴力集团都在追求血酬的最大化。 土匪之所以不打扰农民耕种,是因为要“有的可抢”。用今天的话说,就是韭菜不能连根拔起,得养大了再割,不然就长不出新韭菜。庄家割完一茬,总要撒点饵料,让鱼群尝到甜头,下一波才上得了钩。 把这个逻辑放...
世间千万律法、道德、规则与正义观念,层层叠叠构筑起社会秩序的表象,看似公允恒定、天经地义。但剥开所有文明修饰、礼教说辞、制度条文,藏着一条亘古不变的终极元规则:暴力最强者说了算。这不是世俗偏见,不是人性偏颇,而是决定一切次级规则的根本规则,是贯穿古今、贯通历史与现实的底层博弈逻辑。 一、暴力的现代...
The tens of millions of laws, moral codes, rules, and notions of justice in the world pile layer upon layer into the surface appearance of social orde...
IntroductionDuring the 2021 National Day holiday, my wife and I traveled to Beijing together and walked into Dingling, one of the Ming Tombs — the mau...
Reading Wu Si’s The Law of Blood Payment (《血酬定律》), one sentence hammered into my brain like a nail: Whether protecting the people or harming them, vi...
Reading Wu Si’s The Law of Blood Payment (《血酬定律》), one sentence hammered into my brain like a nail: Whether protecting the people or harming them, vi...
The tens of millions of laws, moral codes, rules, and notions of justice in the world pile layer upon layer into the surface appearance of social orde...
The tens of millions of laws, moral codes, rules, and notions of justice in the world pile layer upon layer into the surface appearance of social orde...
IntroductionDuring the 2021 National Day holiday, my wife and I traveled to Beijing together and walked into Dingling, one of the Ming Tombs — the mau...