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# The thing that made us gentle was murder, applied...
> The thing that made us gentle was murder, applied systematically, by committee. And the committee did not disband; it incorporated. The same coalitionary proactive violence that enabled self-domestication now enables the functioning of states.
**Source:** [[articles/gamification/The Governing Principles of Gamification|The Governing Principles of Gamification]]
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“The thing that made us gentle was murder, applied systematically, by committee. And the committee did not disband; it incorporated. The same coalitionary proactive violence that enabled self-domestication now enables the functioning of states.”
— Bryant McGill
https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-thing-made-gentle-enables-functioning-states
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