[ExI] anarchy

[John Clark]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 12:48 PM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com
> wrote:

*​> *what you suggest sounds like Italy around 1500:   clans and their
> military enforced things; no overarching gov.  How well did that work*?*


​For some reason I'm reminded of Orson Welles's Harry Lime speech from The
Third Man:

 ''*For 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and
bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the
Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love and 500 years of
democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock*.'
​

Yes Lime was the bad guy in the movie and he may have maligned the Swiss a
bit, but you get the point.

 John K Clark ​
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