The Brutal Calculus of Power
https://www.philosopheasy.com/p/the-brutal-calculus-of-power?r=21j11i&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web×tamp=39.7 There is a conversation, recorded over two millennia ago, that serves as the bedrock for understanding power in its most naked form. In the midst of the Peloponnesian War, the envoys of the Athenian empire arrived on the small, neutral island of Melos with a simple, brutal ultimatum: submit or be destroyed. This Substack
