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April 27, 2015

This system is not particularly wisely put together, nor is it likely to survive,

if only because slaves are such terrible fighters, and helots are also terrible fighters.
The slave classes are making very loud noises about how much they distrust the praetorians, and how much they would prefer it if the praetorian caste came to be either replaced by helots, or made into a helot praetorian caste. Why this is doesn’t seem to be from any sort of rational thought process. It’s more that the slave mentality within them has gone to a runaway, ‘left singularity’ signalling competition, in which the slaves are desperate to show that they are more humble and submissive to the needs of the oligarchs than the slave next to them. It’s a sort of groveling competition. The slaves also like to think that their influence over the helots — and their lauding of them as more holy and important than themselves — will also help them use those helots as proxy armies against their real rivals, the freemen. About the Corporate Slave Class - Henry Dampier

Posted by gerardvanderleun at April 27, 2015 10:08 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.

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