On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Bruce Johnson
<johnson@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:
>
> On Aug 26, 2014, at 1:22 PM, Evyn MacDude <evyn.macdude@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Bruce Johnson
>> <johnson@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Aug 26, 2014, at 11:36 AM, Phil Pugliese (via tml list) <nobody@simplelists.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Would an urge to expand/conquer (Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Manifest Destiny, etc) be enough to initiate, sustain, & then maintain something like that?
>>>
>>> There is no such thing as ‘urge to expand/conquer’.
>>
>> Speak for yourself, I fight that urge everyday... ;-)
>
> Hmm…do you have large fleets and tens of thousands of troops willing to keep following you for the sheer joy of conquest?
>
> I think not!

Yes, sadly to say my Horde consists of a 19 year-old and his idiot
friends, but the urge is still there.....

>> As for Japan industrialization speed up as a result of the Meiji
>> Restoration, while there was a lot of influence by the western powers
>> this was largely a Japanese initiative. Also unlike China and India
>> Japan was industrialized to nearly western level prior to 1900. (i.e.
>> less that 40 years, though there was a significant movement already
>> native to Japan at this time).
>
> Mainly because the folks behind the Meiji restoration had witnessed what happened to China and Japan :-)
>

Yep, the speed of the change is what amuses me.

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Evyn