treaties on how people were supposed to relate to each other in society and in a relationship between the king and queen and commoners and all this kind of stuff. it built this vision of society wherein stead of the image of the body politic where everyone is part of the royal lineage and have to listen to the king, people have independent contractual relationships with each other. and the chessboard became this metaphor for that transition from a miedieval society. chess helped us with that problem. you point out that the europeans at some point get fascinated by spices. yeah. first of all, why do they and what is the consequence of that fascination? well, it s an even older story, in a way. it s so weirdly relevant to the framework of this show and where we are tu i da. the whole idea of a global