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Modern people have lost the capacity to see the glory in the techniques of war itself.

Drawn from what Brad DeLong said

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taste Whether good and bad exist in made things, and how a maker comes to tell them apart.

war Armed conflict and preparing for it: military spending, alliances, and what changes when machines are in the loop.

What Brad DeLong actually said

  1. Brad DeLong Economics professor at the University of California
    We moderns have lost the capacity to see Achilles as glorious. We do not see sheer excellence in the techniques of war as glorious in itself. And an earlier generation would.

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