Social-Protocols🤝 Why does conquest start with a partnership?Rome, in Johnathan Bi’s reading of Machiavelli, conquered by inviting neighbors as junior partners: they kept their laws and rulers, and they fought the next wars as proxies.Fraud did the scaling: Rome used those partners to take the next cities, then turned the partners into subjects once the work was done.A pyramid sales scheme runs the same invite at human scale: you keep your name and pitch, recruit the next ring, and the people above you live off that expansion.📄 Read the article
Cognitive-Memetics · ReptilocracyW1: Not In Our TermIf the bill for long-term damage arrives after your window, the room acts like it never happened.
