Some retard on Twitter just claimed I probably haven't even read what I'm citing. How could anyone possibly write something like this without being familiar with the text lmao.
There’s another chapter to this. With the Spartans and Athenians exhausted by the Peloponnesian war, the largely on the fringes of the Hellenic world Macedonians conquered all, before eventually the entire Hellenic world ended up falling to the Romans. Assuming there’s a world left, if we cannot collectively avoid this conflict, would China be the Persians/Medes, the Macedonians or the Romans perhaps?
I still contend the Chinese are inherently the Mede. It wasnt really the Peloponnesian War that fully exhausted them, the wars in Xenophon's Hellenika is what really finally wore them out.
I suppose Macedonia would be some country we arent even thinking of, though it was a minor partisan in the Peloponnesian War.
The Athenians were made bold by their various kinds of innovation and their successes. Fleets were destroyed and re-built, showing their resiliency. The way they rebounded from the plague, a natural disaster to which their "journeys" to foreign lands possibly contributed, showed that they might even conquer nature in something like a modern sense. They took to making speeches to the effect that in their imperialism they may not be better than anyone else, but they are convinced they are not worse. It is human nature. Americans are almost never so clear-sighted.
They had nothing on the Romans in terms of rebounding from drastic disasters, but they were still impressive.
And Americans arent nearly so clear sighted now, but we did get where we are today by having the same character. It is certainly more true of us than any contemporary people "they were brought into this world to take no rest themselves and give no rest to others."
Prescient, I have been reading into this 2,500 classic and am stunned by the parallels!
It's an incredible text that is enormously relevant to a huge number of things, though even by that standard this is remarkably similar.
Some retard on Twitter just claimed I probably haven't even read what I'm citing. How could anyone possibly write something like this without being familiar with the text lmao.
Also: great article!
There’s another chapter to this. With the Spartans and Athenians exhausted by the Peloponnesian war, the largely on the fringes of the Hellenic world Macedonians conquered all, before eventually the entire Hellenic world ended up falling to the Romans. Assuming there’s a world left, if we cannot collectively avoid this conflict, would China be the Persians/Medes, the Macedonians or the Romans perhaps?
I still contend the Chinese are inherently the Mede. It wasnt really the Peloponnesian War that fully exhausted them, the wars in Xenophon's Hellenika is what really finally wore them out.
I suppose Macedonia would be some country we arent even thinking of, though it was a minor partisan in the Peloponnesian War.
The Athenians were made bold by their various kinds of innovation and their successes. Fleets were destroyed and re-built, showing their resiliency. The way they rebounded from the plague, a natural disaster to which their "journeys" to foreign lands possibly contributed, showed that they might even conquer nature in something like a modern sense. They took to making speeches to the effect that in their imperialism they may not be better than anyone else, but they are convinced they are not worse. It is human nature. Americans are almost never so clear-sighted.
They had nothing on the Romans in terms of rebounding from drastic disasters, but they were still impressive.
And Americans arent nearly so clear sighted now, but we did get where we are today by having the same character. It is certainly more true of us than any contemporary people "they were brought into this world to take no rest themselves and give no rest to others."