RE: On Violence
December 15, 2024 at 9:10 pm
(This post was last modified: December 15, 2024 at 9:10 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Children learn to observe, manipulate, cooperate and exploit pretty early. They're working you long before they can properly hold a knife. The organized violence that might be critical to manufacturing consent in a state like ours seems quite a bit more sophisticated and took us a long damned time to figure out, as a species, I mean. Obviously we're quick studies in life.
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