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“I love the gay Eastertide, which brings forth leaves and flowers;….. But also I love to see, amidst the meadows, tents and pavilions spread; and it gives me great joy to see, drawn up on the field, knights and horses in battle array; and it delights me when the scouts scatter people and herds in their path; and I love to see them followed by a great body of men-at-arms; and my heart is filled with gladness when I see strong castles besieged, and the stockades broken and overwhelmed, and the warriors on the bank, girt about by fosses, with a line of strong stakes, interlaced…Maces, swords, helms of different hues, shields that will be riven and shattered as soon as the fight begins; and many vassals struck down together; and the horses of the dead and wounded roving at random..”
It is both a moral and an economic analysis: it has to be. It began as a moral question. It remains a moral question.
I wrote that in May, 1998. So my timing was a little off. But the prophesy wasn't. We overestimate in the short term and underestimate in the long.
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