/lit/ - Literature

>>9701380
Super-hardcore. He knew the deal. Joe D is fucking based. I'm going to make a second 3x3 chart at some point of reactionary theologians and statesmen and other guys and he's going in there.

It's why Empire and so on is worth thinking about. Empire is a thing, it fights wars for self-preservation and to go on being Imperial. It has no other raison d'être and none is required. The rules and the justifications and the arguments all invariably come in later along with the prizes for the survivors.

Need those good and just and gentle Arthurian kings I suppose. Or the occasional Stoic emperor. Maybe a nice World Order or Culture Minds.
>or just a functioning liberal democracy that doesn't meme itself into civil war
>or some bugs on another planet that meteorize rio de janeiro and that we can fuck up conscience-free

Maybe this thread will attract that other anon who was so good with talking about sovereignty, I'd be interested to hear what he thinks.