• Yer Ma
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    156 months ago

    Power and prestige lay not in amassing wealth but in assuring that wealth was shared wisely, and leaders earned support in part by being good providers and wise distributors. Many polities established councils of elders and balanced power by pairing leaders, such as the war chief and the peace chief; setting up male and female councils; and operating under family-based clans that had members in multiple towns.

    I can only dream that we could learn to follow these ways now

    • @QuandaleDingle
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      46 months ago

      Sounds a lot like the setting in Naruto. Kishimoto was on to something. :D

      • Yer Ma
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        36 months ago

        Well, Naruto was a post apocalyptic scifi, where they were rebuilding the world on the ashes is a fallen empire, so maybe its a bit prophetic since history is largely circular