https://broomstick.tymyrddin.dev/tags/substrate/Recent content in Substrate on The Broomstick BriefHugo -- 0.147.3enThu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://broomstick.tymyrddin.dev/posts/peace-costs/Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://broomstick.tymyrddin.dev/posts/peace-costs/Peace is not the default but the engineered state: the arrangements that keep cooperation the higher-return strategy. A reading of the present through what those arrangements cost to maintain.https://broomstick.tymyrddin.dev/posts/warfare/Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://broomstick.tymyrddin.dev/posts/warfare/The major theories of how war began are not rivals. Each names a real mechanism, and each mechanism dominates only where the substrate makes it decisive. A substrate reading of organised violence, from Jebel Sahaba and the Taş Tepeler monuments onward.