@0x49fa98 They should skip the long way round and just forcibly colonize weakly claimed land. What’s the point of getting dicked around like this by countries like Malaysia
@jasoncrawford Kind of getting tired of this whiggish view of democratization and progress.
You don't address the qualitative gap between classical art, produced by aristocracy, and modern art produced by democracy+technology (which could go either way, but you never address it)