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The retired professor of sociology tries his hand at deciphering the logic of empire building. Empire builders obviously use violence, deceit, subversion to build their empires, but in the process they also create many enemies. To deal with the latter problem, they must construct vast spying networks to head off resistance to their rule. The professor provides more of the details of this process and illustrates the logic by referring to the history of the US Empire. I'm not as hopeful as he is about the ultimate consequences of this logic.