Memory, Meaning, Moments and Madness: Wanderers in No Man's Land
• chris-floyd.com/As Father and I know, and as we try not to remind them, there is no good reason for our subjects to pay their taxes, row our ships, fight our battles or tip their caps to us other than tradition and the threat of violence (which is implicit...
Superb article, if somewhat droning and tedious at times. Well worth the read however. Here is the corrected broken link found about half way through:
http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2010/05/iii-life-in-shadow-of-death-and-power.html
I would send the author a note, but it requires I register at his site...I hate that.