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Is There a Difference Between Statecraft and Statecraft?
i think that the fact that there are many, many narratives doesn't mean that there's nothing true in any of them. And it seems to me that not only a, you not like individual human life, but even statecraft in some way depends on being able to be good at understanding what the background substance of human life is. i find more useful in thinking about these sorts of things in terms of modes and orders which need to be put over time for it to be durable.sam: What does it take to build a state? machiavelli: I don't really worry so much about a building a transcendently good state or n’er-do-dulce