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It isn't people who don't fight who get a say in establishing the new order. It's the strongest barbarian tribe or rebellious vassal standing in the ruins. Your fantasies about being a monk preserving knowledge are futile because the barbarians are already literate. They have their own...

Oh, I recognize that argument. It's from the Communist Manifesto. The reality is that the money gets replaced with new money. A new house of tyranny is built and stands until it, too, decays to cards. Every time an empire falls or is driven out unless people like Washington and Madison are...

If, as you believe, those currently in power are cast down by those who wish to wield the same power they, too, by your own reasoning, will only be cast down in civil war. And you would sit that one out for the same reasons. If people who want to overthrow the tyrannical system don't get...