
Exploding Kings and Gestalt Psychology
The Blindboy Podcast
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William the Conqueror - A Poem in Soft Power
William the conqueror was king of england. He got too fat for his horse and disemboweled himself on it. His body started to decompose rapidly, so they had an emergency funeral. But he died with this gaping wound in his stomach. So bureaucracy was the domesday book. It recorded everything - how many pigs do you own? How much land do you have? This is keeping record established in soft power. And he english rilers can trace themselves to william the Conqueror.
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