Honestly, one of the main questions for societies today is if the patricians' endless, hateful greed will end up destroying us all. In far too many ways, the empire never ended.
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Put it this way: America's founding gentry revered a fictional republic, all marble and civic virtue. They got the truer Rome of massive slave plantations, military demagogues, civil strife and covering up all the many, many problems with pomp and blood-drenched expansion until it collapses inwards
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Another important, yet understated reason as to why romanticizing US history in particular is so slimy...
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they also look towards surviving works of Roman wealthy opinion columnists complaining about what was ruining the Roman Republic and thinking they have to prevent it from ruining the US Republic, without ever reflecting on what documents survive
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this is why I think an education in the classics is actually a key piece of perpetuating fascism
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That is certainly what Philip K Dick believed. I don't think he was wrong.
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Our entire society was built to clone the Roman Republic by a group of rich landowners who wanted to cement their credentials as Enlightenment thinkers by cosplaying as Romans. Small wonder our society has many of the same problems. I just hope that we don’t end up with the same ‘solution’.
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