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Violence is the defacto state of Man. It's latent in us all ( to some epsilon ). We're just continuously inventing ever more elegantly contrived methods of distributing it.

The nation-state has been quite the technology. throw in trade between humans in these states, and much of human suffering is quite addressed. But a cost of errors in its maintenance is shedding the blood of those who fight.

ISIS? Its DNA is described in "A Peace to End All Peace" It's not fictional; we didn't "invent" it. Those who designed the system to rid Iraq ( which was invented ) of the Ba'athists created the conditions necessary for it as an unintended consequence. But the larger context is the failure of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire wasn't quite a nation-state; the Kemalists in Turkey attempted to back-engineer a nation-state in the form of Turkey, but that left lots of territory in a power vacuum.




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