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Civil War
We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
—Thomas Jefferson
The Chief Advisor had never heard of a Schelling point. He would not have appreciated the math in any case. But like the government bureaucrats of ancient China, he understood at the primal level where survival instincts kick in that the Governor’s Cavalry represented an existential threat.
A geek might have said it was yet another Schelling point in a week when an astonishing number of Schelling points had coalesced into spontaneous coordination, but you know how geeks are. Years would pass before a team of BrainTrust math nerds working with Dark Alpha 97 would coin the term “Schelling Cascade” to explain this moment in history.
In any event, like the ancient Chinese before him, the Advisor set for
