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WiM060 - The Vervaeke Series | Episode 7 | Religion and Other Sacred Canopies

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Feudalism and Gunpowder

The ability to project force across distance is what allows us to project our will power on one another and on the world at large. The invention of gunpowder? All of a sudden these peasants can take out a night at 200 yards, no problem. Feudalism collapses, the chivalric code collapses, and then it later suffers its own disruption with the printing press. This economic of violence, i think, is very key to how we organize ourselves.

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