this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2024
759 points (94.6% liked)
Comic Strips
12287 readers
1618 users here now
Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.
The rules are simple:
- The post can be a single image, an image gallery, or a link to a specific comic hosted on another site (the author's website, for instance).
- The comic must be a complete story.
- If it is an external link, it must be to a specific story, not to the root of the site.
- You may post comics from others or your own.
- If you are posting a comic of your own, a maximum of one per week is allowed (I know, your comics are great, but this rule helps avoid spam).
- The comic can be in any language, but if it's not in English, OP must include an English translation in the post's 'body' field (note: you don't need to select a specific language when posting a comic).
- Politeness.
- Adult content is not allowed. This community aims to be fun for people of all ages.
Web of links
- !linuxmemes@lemmy.world: "I use Arch btw"
- !memes@lemmy.world: memes (you don't say!)
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
You forgot to mention the Roman Empire
I'm only interested in the Roman Emperor, Marcus Aurelius because of his meditations. The things he wrote down for just himself to see are some of the most humbling passages I've ever come across. The exception to the rule that absolute power corrupts absolutely. A god to his people who paid a peasant to whisper in his ear to remind him he was just a man. Rome experienced a time of peace and prosperity under his rule without needless wars of conquest.
He was a good man and I aspire to be more like him.
I'm pretty sad Rome got co opted to be like a weird right ideology. I read the Percy Jackson books growing up so I've always been fascinated with ancient Greece and Rome.
Oppressive military dictatorship that really likes their military is idolized by wannabe oppressive military dictators who really like their millitary? Who'd have thought?
Oh, also the deep ties to cristianity and fascism. Inquisitions and crusades are exactly the legacy they're after.
I'll shit talk the Empire all day but the Inquisitions and Crusades aren't on them.
I suppose that's fair, but there are a number of alarming things done in the name of the empire, especially after it fell. The whole latin influence on Europe was a net negative in my opinion. However, I can agree that blaming them for what happened later is a bit harsh.
Said oppressive military dictatorship was also way more socialist than anything we have today.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Rome
Not sure what the point of linking a Wikipedia page for a basic fact everyone learns in 3rd grade is.
Socialism is at some point on the scale of private property is collectively managed, therefore advancing towards a classless society. A society with slaves, by definition, cannot be socialist.
Or, in other words, between that and literally everything else about Rome, only a real clown of a person would say something like "Rome was more socialist than any modern society"
Which did happen for pretty much every society pre-capitalism... which includes Rome.
Rome was think with right wing ideology for much of it's history.
A great deal of our understanding of fascism in the modern area comes from Roman histories