What ancient civilisation would you like to live in?
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Johnny Canuck3
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It might have been fun being part of the Mongols or the Huns. No duty/desire conflict for those people!
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esse quam videri
Rome is the place to be, in the good days.
Johnny Canuck3
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Weren't romans, sort of the Americans of their age?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
well they were the dominant empire of the day, as were the Greeks in thier epoch, and the Brits and any other you care to name.
I'd like to say that no other empire ever showed such arrogant moral imperative as the US, but that just isn't true.
The US do a neat line in cultural and economic model hegemony. While believing the lie of freedom and justice for all so prevelant in american discourse. Course america maybe about to rediscover that lasting myth of it's own libertarian innocence with barrack healing some wounds by his potential presidency.
We'll see.
Johnny Canuck3
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It's good you're not saying it, because it would be a dumb thing to say, and would prove that you have zero knowledge of history.
Wolveryeti
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Rome for the baths, hypocausts, wine and orgies.
Vikings coming a close second just because they kicked so much arse and ate fly agarics.
Vikings coming a close second just because they kicked so much arse and ate fly agarics.
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It might have been fun being part of the Mongols or the Huns. No duty/desire conflict for those people!
there was plenty of duty/desire conflict for em, younger brothers coverting the wives and horses of older brothers, daughters not wanting to leave the tribe to do their duty as wife to some chief in some other tribe, artist/poets-at-heart not wanting to learn the horse and master the plain...
Wasn't all just pelting about the place ravaging an pillaging.
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No, the Romans were the Romans of their age, The Americans, like most eurocentric empires since the Romans are just Rome-wannabe jonny-come-latelies.
Johnny Canuck3
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Because the Huns and the Mongols were human beings, I can assume that they were complicated. Human beings are always complicated, never met a one-dimensional human being yet.
Johnny Canuck3
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You know what happens when you assume.
You make an ASS of U and ME.
And don't you forget it!
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yes. ass u me. yes very clever play on words, because assume has words that can be made into ass and u and me. therefore it follows any use of the word "assume" is by asses.
Meanwhile back on earth human beings are complicated, conflicted creatures, whose instincts are abstracted into complex and often opposing pressure-fronts. Anyone who's ever lived as part of a family, or shared-house, had a group of friends or worked at a job with colleagues knows that it's never all fun and games (or pelting about the place pillaging). You'd have to be pretty naive to think living in a Mongol tribe was somehow magicaly different. There are always desire/duty conflicts in whatever culture you live in.
Meanwhile back on earth human beings are complicated, conflicted creatures, whose instincts are abstracted into complex and often opposing pressure-fronts. Anyone who's ever lived as part of a family, or shared-house, had a group of friends or worked at a job with colleagues knows that it's never all fun and games (or pelting about the place pillaging). You'd have to be pretty naive to think living in a Mongol tribe was somehow magicaly different. There are always desire/duty conflicts in whatever culture you live in.
Johnny Canuck3
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I'd love to claim it as my own, but I can't. That honour goes to the writers of the Odd Couple tv show, and the line was delivered by Tony Randall, in court, with a blackboard. However, I make use of it as much as possible.
Btw, there's nothing wrong with the use of the word assume, the 'assishness' comes in, from making assumptions.
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