The conquest is any way organized
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2025 7:55 am
The true essence of life is unknown; it can only be studied through the phenomena it manifests" wrote the French biologist Francois Bichat. Early scientists like von Humboldt, Bichat and Stahl understood this as the fight against decomposition. The body is in a state of permanent vigilance. When life departs the body, the forces of decomposition take over completely, soon make the body unrecognizable and finally liquify it, unless the bones or even the entire corpse be preserved as a shell of that former "kingdom of the body".
Without the key powers of appropriation, transformation, conversion, reproduction and defence, a body falls apart. The empire is like a body which wants to be immortal. It refuses the limit of space job function email list which is imposed upon the nation/body. Its success in the present is a matter of material power and superior technics. It was superior military technics which enabled Alexander to conquer Persia (the phalanx), whites to conquer America (the revolver) and Africa (the rifle), the Romans to conquer Carthage and Hellas (the legion).
But if , as it will have to be if it is to be more than a raid, then it is done not just in the name of oneself (doing the conquering) but in the name of something greater than oneself: the King, the Motherland, Christianity, Civilization. The empire is at once embarking on conquest and crusade but the notion of crusade contains that of saving and not only destroying. The empire believes in duty, in a mission to save, hence the often remarkable alternations in the history of empires between extreme ruthlessness and extreme compassion, the ruthless exploitation.
Without the key powers of appropriation, transformation, conversion, reproduction and defence, a body falls apart. The empire is like a body which wants to be immortal. It refuses the limit of space job function email list which is imposed upon the nation/body. Its success in the present is a matter of material power and superior technics. It was superior military technics which enabled Alexander to conquer Persia (the phalanx), whites to conquer America (the revolver) and Africa (the rifle), the Romans to conquer Carthage and Hellas (the legion).
But if , as it will have to be if it is to be more than a raid, then it is done not just in the name of oneself (doing the conquering) but in the name of something greater than oneself: the King, the Motherland, Christianity, Civilization. The empire is at once embarking on conquest and crusade but the notion of crusade contains that of saving and not only destroying. The empire believes in duty, in a mission to save, hence the often remarkable alternations in the history of empires between extreme ruthlessness and extreme compassion, the ruthless exploitation.