The Logic of Violence

In the year 15 hundred, or it will say, late 14 hundred, the church had been running the show for a long time. They had a string hold on knowledge, information, printing of books, wealth. And so to be part of that bureaucracy was the way to to have power in the world effectively. But then, as we know, something seemingly harmless emerges like a printing press, just a a little piece of tech. Next thing you know, we've increased the rate of book production by thousands of percentage. Wats many orders of magnitude, church loses its monopoly on ledge, and therefore starts its descent as the dominant institution in the world.

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