• ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          In ancient times (with some exceptions) the elites preserved their monopoly on organized violence and did most of the fighting themselves. Then they helped themselves to the young women without any regard for what the poor young men thought about it.

          • Matty Roses@lemmy.today
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            2 months ago

            it’s a book that has his usual problems - he can’t satirize fascism well, so he winds up glorifying it - but Pahalniuk’s Adjustment Day deals with this quite a bit.