Oddbean new post about login | logout @b42b2f3c @LESS THAN 200 DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS @2a48eef0 This is ahistorical. Surely not everyone before the eighteenth century was a sociopath.
@e9ab4887 @LESS THAN 200 DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS @2a48eef0 before the 18th century, we had little idea of how to maintain large and complex societies without pretty strict control. the lessons of the Greeks and Romans had been lost. perhaps?
@b42b2f3c @LESS THAN 200 DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS Were the lessons lost, or merely ignored by people who saw big bucks in the bourgeois crusade?