Andrew Sage

But he writes about how the relationship between sort of eloquence and violence, where the less you have... And this isn't somewhere in the utopia of rules.

He writes about how...

You know, people who have access to violence to compel people to do something, you don't even have to speak the same language as someone, right?

You can just point a gun at them and, you know, they have to obey you because, you know, they have force, right?

But the less ability you have to actually use force to get someone to do something, right?

So if you're a village chief in... There's actually a lot of indigenous tribes that were like this, but, you know, you're in, like, sort of the Northeast and...

You don't actually have the ability to compel people to do things.

So if you want people to go work in the morning, you have to, like, get up and make a giant show of, like, oh, I'm getting up to work in the morning.

Everyone follow me.

Wow, look at how hard I'm working.

And you have to, like, convince them through oratory.

And, you know, this is, like, why all these people, when Europeans run into them, everyone is like, holy shit, these are, like, these are the best orators I've ever encountered because they have to be, right?

But the more power you have, the less eloquence you have to have.

Which I think is like, you know, this is like a Donald Trump thing, right?

It's like, yeah, once you've reached this point in the process, you know, you can just compel people to do things through violence.

You can just, like, talk like a fourth grader and it's fine and it doesn't matter because you just have violence.

And that's what this reminds me of.

It's like, oh, we're the company.

Like, we're fucking owned by Nestle.

We have all this money.