War persists not simply because people or cultures remember conflict, but because entire civilisations derive identity, coherence, profit, and meaning from its repetition.
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War persists not simply because people or cultures remember conflict, but because entire civilisations derive identity, coherence, profit, and meaning from its repetition.
You would think that any self-respecting species possessing intellectual and technological aptitude sufficient to fathom the deepest mysteries of the Cosmos might also be able to avoid its own imminent catastrophic dissolution and descent into conflict, environmental disassembly, geopolitical dissonance and self-destruction. Not, as it turns out, this distributed material and symbolic human being within […]