Mikkel, I’m a huge suoperter of being practical. And also wonder about people learning Shakespeare. But I also know that soft sciences are learned less and less and we are loosing that knowledge sometimes which I wouldn’t want to happen either. I don’t have a good answer of how to balance, but thought it’s worth a mention.

As for the post, it’s fascinating!! Using disasters as a strategy to control a country?! There is a comment saying in Hebrew qouted from the Bible saying (free translation) : “have you murdered someone and also inhereted him?!”. And this is exactly the same thing. Not only do you cause the problem you also then exploit the country and people becusse of that?!

I am going to read that for sure, these types of things are fascinating and shape our world so prominently today. Hey, why is this not taught in schools but people spend semester after semester learning Shakespeare?

The list was so long I thought to just give a sample to the atrocities, but yes you are right there is lots I left out

Read more about this era in Rothbard’s “The Progressive Era”.