How much does constructing giant skull walls and pillars from the remains of your human sacrifices(https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/06/feeding-gods-hundred...) contribute to happiness and the good life? Asking for a friend.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
There's another aspect to this, though, which is that people with strong political views tend to view the site as dominated by their enemies. Meanwhile the people with opposite political views think their enemies dominate it. These perceptions are what happens when passionate feeling meets cognitive bias. See for yourself: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I mean, one might ask, “What can the Khmer Rouge teach us about running a country effectively.”
edit: looks like I was beaten
(Further reading: someone at a forum I belong to who is well-read in this area has been doing an excellent series of posts on the Mexica: https://www.verduria.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=712, which if you ignore the long discussions between posts is a really readable introduction to Mexica society.)