Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On 12/26/24 11:57 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Thu, 26 Dec 2024 21:41:29 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
 

    Read up on the Italian and Greek city-state eras.
    The "town over the hill" was always attacking.

 Thucydides got an Amazon best seller out of it. If the bible can be
believed the tribal god was big on genocide when somebody else was living
on the land he gave you. That hasn't changed a bit.

   Nope. Seems to be a 'human nature' thing ... hardwired
   will to dominance.
   We can, sometimes, alter the environment within HOW
   that trait is expressed - but it doesn't go away.
   After a time of peace/unity general dissatisfaction
   seems to grow and eventually overwhelm those engineered
   methods.

A lot of the petty squabbles were eclipsed by the Thirty Years war but it
took a Bismarck to put together I don't know how many pissant
principalities, free cities, and other local turfs after the Holy Roman
Empire fell apart.

   Things fell apart almost as quickly as they were put
   together. Alliances, sentiments, needs, changed very
   quickly. Kinda 'Game Of Thrones' but without the
   dragons.
   Post-Rome, Europe was a MESS. Only Charlemagne kinda
   glued it together at all - but then almost only by
   the sword. Oddly, I think the Viking invasions did
   more to stabilize things - sort of the 'alien invasion'
   that brought petty gripes and ambitions more onto the
   same wavelength.
   DaVinci's Italy was a constant war between the many
   city states for a long time. The Popes, while
   theoretically the ultimate authorities, instead
   seemed to just profit financially and politically
   from all the chaos and let it go on. Then a
   de Medici became Pope ........
   Greece ... amazing they had TIME to repel the
   Persians - too busy fighting each other.
   "I have stuff. You have stuff. If I take YOUR stuff
   then I'll have twice as much stuff !" - simple logic.