War #4: What is War?, with Roy Casagrande

In this new mini-series, Parallax dives into the phenomenon of war. What are it´s characteristics, whats it´s function? Can we overcome it, or are we bound to certain aspects of human nature and culture.

Roy Edward Casagranda is a American political scientist, historian, and author. He is a professor of political science at Austin Community College (ACC) and founder of the Austin School, a public lecture series focusing on history, geopolitics, and international relations.

In this episode we talk about the function of war for the civilisation-process, different cultural iterations of what is called 'modernity', the pre-requisite of being a great leader, the decline of art and the inevitably of war as a human condition.

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