balsam
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RIP M Poincare was a great man.
From the Aesir/Vanir, the Titans/Olympians to the French & Russian revolutions.
“The ultimate structure of the myth, then, is that the three estates of Proto-Indo-European society were fused only after a war between the first two against the third...”
(The third being not those who engage in (corporate) warfare or (rhetorical) magic, but those who working with concrete stuff (modern day fertility cults))
From the wikipedia article on the aesir-vanir war.
For the decentralized subculture, perhaps “the persons above the arena”
One wonders if the Etonians of earlier decades were hit as hard by lead poisoning as by a misplaced sense of impunity.