Backroom Errata

[Crandar]

They too can be held accountable, though the "actionable threshold" for an effort to 'bring them to justice' would be very high.

Depends on what you mean by accountable. No ruler is omnipotent, neither Egyptian pharaohs nor Sarmatian chocolate magnates. Every regime is based on the collaboration and toleration of a part of the society, in order to survive. It may be the nobility, industrialists, shopkeepers, the court, the tribe or even the people, but everyone is accountable. Every wise ruler should know that he needs to fulfill certain expectations, as long as he doesn't wish to get down-voted, overthrown, poisoned or exiled.

[Montmorency]

Oh nooo

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[Montmorency]

I would define nihilism as a combination of three basic elements: a refusal to hope for anything except the ultimate vindication of hopelessness; a rejection of all values, especially values widely regarded as sacrosanct (equality, posterity, and legality); and a glorification of destruction, including self-destruction—or as Walter Benjamin put it, “self-alienation” so extreme that humanity “can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure.” Nihilism is less passive and more perverse than simple despair. “Nihilism is not only despair and negation,” according to Albert Camus, “but, above all, the desire to despair and to negate.”

Dayum.

[Montmorency]

Article on the anthropology of polygyny and its different types:

Norak, being unable to obtain a wife elsewhere, laid hands on Anengnak’s second wife one day and began to drag her away. Anengnak caught hold of her on the other side, and a tug of war ensued, but finally Norak, though the smaller of the two, succeeded in dragging her away to his hut and made her his wife.

what the $#@! is this even human reality