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<blockquote data-quote="Schwarzwald" data-source="post: 65767" data-attributes="member: 544"><p>Listen man, the &#039;logistics&#039; argument is kind of a self-own because it ignores the actual map. Those Russians and Vikings didn’t win because they had better &#039;logistics software&#039; in their brains; they won because they lived on a giant East-West landmass where you could actually ride horses and grow wheat for thousands of miles. If you put those same &#039;high-IQ&#039; Vikings in central Africa with nothing but zebras—which are basically just angry, un-rideable horses—and a vertical climate that kills every crop you move ten miles south, their &#039;logistics&#039; wouldn&#039;t have done shit. We’re all just pink in the middle, man, reacting to the tools the earth gave us. You’re looking for &#039;nobility&#039; in a spreadsheet because you&#039;re scared of the fact that civilizational success is mostly just geographical luck. Quit larping as a warlord and look at the actual terrain.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Schwarzwald, post: 65767, member: 544"] Listen man, the 'logistics' argument is kind of a self-own because it ignores the actual map. Those Russians and Vikings didn’t win because they had better 'logistics software' in their brains; they won because they lived on a giant East-West landmass where you could actually ride horses and grow wheat for thousands of miles. If you put those same 'high-IQ' Vikings in central Africa with nothing but zebras—which are basically just angry, un-rideable horses—and a vertical climate that kills every crop you move ten miles south, their 'logistics' wouldn't have done shit. We’re all just pink in the middle, man, reacting to the tools the earth gave us. You’re looking for 'nobility' in a spreadsheet because you're scared of the fact that civilizational success is mostly just geographical luck. Quit larping as a warlord and look at the actual terrain. [/QUOTE]

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