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# Empires
- URL: https://werd.io/empires/
- Published: 2025-02-22T21:18:43.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-14T19:15:51.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-11 21:47, Asides

For the avoidance of doubt:

All empires are bad.

All empires have always *been* bad.

All empires always *will be* bad.

The *concept* of empire is bad.

The *prerequisites* for empire are bad.

And the people who *like* empires — any of them — are bad.

Do not have fondness for empires.

Do not have nostalgia for them.

Empires *by definition* colonize and rule space — physical, figurative, or both — that might otherwise be free.

Resist the urge to romanticize empire. It was never good, and it never will be.