

It’s every expansive empire, but even biological life follows the square cube law.
Once something gets so big, it can’t survive.
For life it has to do with transporting oxygen throughout the body.
For empires it’s being able to maintain and pacify the populace of conquered lands. If you expand too fast, you don’t have the populace on your side and have already moved troops forward. Then you end up with rebellion between your troops and your city. If your lucky it just causes a logistical nightmare when rebels stick to your own lands.
If you’re unlucky they march in towards your capital forcing you to pull troops back and if your unconquered enemy capitalizes, your troops are eventually caught in the middle.
But impatient rulers destroy empires.












I accidentally went to a private Lee Brice concert once well over a decade ago.
I had no idea who he was, but it was at one of those Coyote Ugly type bars a friend served/danced at so it was free and I knew going in I was literally the only guy there.
Brice was wasted, didn’t use a mic and just sat at a table so all the women had to crowd around him to hear anything.
It legitimately felt like a college party where some douche pulled out a guitar, but everyone was actually into it. Literally the worst “concert” I’ve ever been too, but still, the audience was me and like 50 very attractive women. So a pretty fun night at the bar except when he was trying to sing. Which he barely did.