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#380 - Dan Jones - Is Genghis Khan Harder Than Jocko Willink?
Modern Wisdom
The Power of Monks
Power doesn't come from anywhere, but power is manifested in different ways. And and then power can take different forms. The operation of the institutions of monks is a good example of this. If you thing about clunac monasticism, its institutional power, its non military. It's not overtly political. But it's more than that. Its cultural. A system which grants its institution leaders equivalent power to political leaders without a state beneath them. So i think that that story of monks foring, just as an example, is onea that takes you not just into the soof cloister and and the everyday, humdrum reality of mediaeval monasticism - but actually
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