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RE: He Who Would Be Emperor: In Pursuit of the Chrysanthemum Throne

in Paper in my Pocketlast year

I wish we had past leaders that were so much larger than life like these other places. I meant I'm not saying I want to have a dictator and I also think we had some food leaders, but nothing like this.

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Well... all these guys were warlords, so they weren't exactly nice. There is a reason for that ukiyo-e print above that shows Kiyomori burning with the fires of hell, after all. He was ruthless, killing at a whim, and everyone hated him. Then we had Nobunaga who just killed pretty much everyone. Women, children, old people. Warlords be warlords. They make for exciting tales a few hundred years afterwards, but I don't think the tales were quite as exciting for the poor folks who were living in their way at the time.

Okay, you got me there.