You know what I love? The State

[Montegriffo]

This is the most DCF like thread we've had for ages.
All we need is some guy called Dr Strangelove calling some guy called drtrech a cunt and it will be just like the good old days.

[StCapps]

The bureaucratic state had not only been tried, but successfully implemented in enough of the world to make precision tools possible by the 18th century.

Order is the engine of our flourishing.

Explain how the technological revolution took off in a th time of chaos and upheaval?

This is the time of both the French and American Revolutions.

Chaos is a ladder

[Montegriffo]

I just listened to an interesting episode of the BBC's history of the world in 100 objects.
They were talking about the beginnings of agriculture. Once thought to have spread from the fertile crescent to the rest of the world but now believed to have started independently in several places at around the same time.
They were asking the question why were the first crops plants that couldn't be eaten without some sort of preparation. Grains such as wheat in Eurasia, rice in China, sorghum in Africa and starchy tubers in New Guinea.
The conclusion was that these particular plants gave us an advantage over other species of animals precisely because they needed to be prepared and cooked before they were digestible so we didn't need to compete with other animals for them as a food source. Our big brains enabling us to cook and prepare these otherwise indigestible plants was the advantage which made agriculture worthwhile.
In other words, even before potters, it was cooks who made agriculture viable and led to the beginnings of civilisation.

You're welcome...

[C-Mag]

In other words, even before potters, it was cooks who made agriculture viable and led to the beginnings of civilisation.

You're welcome...

Thank You Monte, for creating modern society. I bow to you.

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

Hail Monte, the last, best hope of civilization.

[C-Mag]

Hail Monte, the last, best hope of civilization.

Damn Right.

Now, Monte...………………….. Where's my sammich Bitch.

[Montegriffo]

In other words, even before potters, it was cooks who made agriculture viable and led to the beginnings of civilisation.

You're welcome...

Thank You Monte, for creating modern society. I bow to you.

You're welcome. Your appreciation of the value of my profession is reward enough.
State employed warriors such as yourself also played their part.

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

Hail Monte, the last, best hope of civilization.

Damn Right.

Now, Monte...………………….. Where's my sammich Bitch.

You are gonna have to lend him some of your hoard, my friend. I'm sure he can whip you up a mean sammy, but ingredients is scarce.

[Montegriffo]

Hail Monte, the last, best hope of civilization.

Wise words as always.
I seek no adulation only appreciation.

[C-Mag]

Hail Monte, the last, best hope of civilization.

Damn Right.

Now, Monte...………………….. Where's my sammich Bitch.

You are gonna have to lend him some of your hoard, my friend. I'm sure he can whip you up a mean sammy, but ingredients is scarce.

I'm relying on the complex bureaucracy to come up with the ingredients. I'm just a peasant. I wouldn't begin to know what kind of supplies to stockpile to make a great sammich.