@GerryCallahan@KeithOlbermann@elonmusk I used to listen to you daily, literally since mid 1990s Boston radio. I stopped a few years ago when I realized you never talk about the elephant in the room
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3rd century BCE, Qin Dynasty. How do you control tens of millions across vast territory?
Control the food supply.
But meat is nearly impossible to control. Peasants can raise chickens, catch fish, hunt game. Animals move. They're decentralised.
Grain is perfect for tyranny: Grows in visible fields, harvested predictably, stores in central granaries, can be counted and taxed. Grain stays where you put it.
The policy: Prioritise grain production. Tax grain. Store grain. Distribute grain in controlled rations.
Rice and millet became peasant staples not because they were optimal nutrition, but because they were optimal control.
Hunting restricted to nobility. Fishing required permits. Raising livestock beyond chickens was discouraged through taxation.
What peasants ate: Rice or millet three times daily. Meat once per month during festivals.
What officials ate: Regular meat. Duck. Pork. Fish. Organs. Daily.
Confucian philosophy emphasised hierarchy. Buddhism taught that wanting meat was spiritual weakness.
Morality followed economics. Grain could be controlled, meat couldn't. The moral framework justified that reality as virtuous.
For 2,000 years, Chinese peasants ate grain while rulers ate meat and told them it was natural order.
Ask yourself why Davos serves steak while telling you to eat bugs.
Different empire. Same playbook.