A person whose sole motivation is pleasure in the afterlife will likely do great harm to themselves in present life as they as they chase a reward for goodness instead of acting with moral intent for the righteous act in and of itself.
Its difficult to not take seriously the notion that the success of the American Revolution wasn’t so much a patriotic victory but a move by the British to minimize their losses.
One can always rely on mathematics to find a safe way of hiding a model from criticism if the evidence in its support is lacking.
The devil is always in the quality and validity of the assumptions.
The success of the British Empire lay with its ability to delegate. It therefore made great use of local networks of administration, designated ‘poopahs’, foreign mercenaries and regional businessmen. The failure of the Mongol empire outside China itself (with the Yuan dynasty) is that it never came to terms with this idea.
No system, no matter how robust it is on paper can stand up to the folly of the ego of those who run it.
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