Athens and no legality outside of the procedures of the forum, and even those… What they had was the deliberations of the forum. They didn’t check the books, they just decided.
I want to make a distinction too between a lawyer and a scholar politician: the scholar has knowledge on stuff and applies it. The position and the knowledge are one. The lawyer has a body of knowledge separate from the issue, and seeks to fit the issue into the body of knowledge.
And so, Nixon knew this and this and do that. He was working in and on his subject matter. With the lawyer, the body of knowledge is separate. The lawyer takes recourse to his knowledge. The scholar departs from the knowledge, and is constantly updating it. Like Kissinger learning from the Chinese and the Arabs about statecraft, and yet having 0 issues with reconciliation.
I just want to go ahead and explicitly admit here that the what comes from after Octavian is not laweyrs in any clear or obvious way. Or even fully defensible or true way. It is… to understand the collision that was Octavian, the assassination of Cesar and the… It’s a little like understanding the Big Bang in its full mythological setting. Just a clash that created something so weird, so weirdly created a weird, that we can only call it the entire world.
Christianity… I guess it is fitting that it should be such a humble figure. But then, of course, islam too. It is anything but clear, I just want to admit that. But they are lawyers. Of what, representing who, payed for by who, that’s all… That’s where… I have to admit, it is murksh kadurksh at the very absolute bestest. And yet. Laweyrs son. If Christianity strickes awe, it is because its genesis was is awe stricking. Not to get like biblical about it. AND THEN, THERE WAS. No. These were people here. Just… um… Dang. I on purpose wanted not to get into it. For the knights of The Zodiac fans out there, it is like the paradox of Pegasus unstoppable punch and the Dragon’s unbreakable sheild. They work it out by they just both break, but-um. when it happens in the ultimate political center of the Planet, suddenly loose ends demand prescence.
Athens, helpfully, is cleaner. It was not about specific persons, as these were the exception in Rome and thus special, but about the fact of specific personality, which was the commonstance.
What is remembered about the one Athenian we remember as a specific person is that he was a representative of a bunch of specific persons as a group of specific persons. Anyway, it’s cleaner. Citizenship vs Res Publica.
But that’s a misleading vs, as they both rock. It is the best of these vs the Haters. Also, worth noting, neither of these is an end onto themselves. As opposed to commies, which posit themselves, sickly, as their own end.
Nay. Many worlds emerge from either of these, Rome or Athens. My postulations are about strategic possibility and which one technically Makes Greater than the other. Sai.
Just wanted to say that. I am not blind to the intricacies and convoluted depthsiniesitiestations.
sigh
It is the middle of the beginning of the great war, we have no time for convolutednesses. We need yeses, nos, and go forths. The lawyers are in full swing, the energies from our side are invested. Time to get a little Spartan, at the risk of making the whole scheme sillified.
“My son, where you have seen the conexion between 21 Savage and President Trump, then you shall have acheived understanding.”“And Korea.”“And Rome.”“My son, shut the fuck up about it, it’s complicated.”“Athens, my son. seek Athens. She slowly reemerges and calls to you.”
i never thought i’d see ‘21 savage’ and ‘athens’ mentioned in the same paragraph. ‘trump’ and ‘21 savage’, yes, but never that.
this is how you know some real shit is going down in the minds of western people. a hundred years ago such a mention would be so unheard of it might even have been illegal.
don’t get me wrong. athens had its share of problems… but never something so bad as to warrant its mention beside… cough… ‘21 savage’.
almost like a bad version of hunger-games or some shit.
edit: move to borg thread.
shit i’m in the wrong thread. how the fuck did that happen. carleas, be a good sport and put that last one over in the borg thread, yes?
I know. It is not immediately accessible to most minds.
Capitalism with XX values.
The future?
“African Americans built this nation."
Donald J Trump
“… in exchange for a straw mattress in a barn and cabbage soup three times a day.”
donald j trump
Sorry dog. You lost my respect when you told that story about going down to Guatemala someplace to build huts.
I was like “man.” “He’s just another gringo.”
But I love building huts, man. I can’t help it.
See cause you’se a fascist. Fascism is soft. At the center. That’s why they bunch up and build war machines and death camps.
How could a privileged snot face like you understand? What it means to have built America?
Go to Germany and suck a dick. They’ll like it.
I built my first hut in wilderness camp when I was sixteen, ya know. No power tools, bro. Straight elbow grease. We cut the trees down, barked em, dovetail notched em, and fastened the whole fuckin frame together with dowel rods. Rafters too. Softwood pines we’re ideal; easy to cut and drill through. Then we’d throw a leather tarp over the rafters for the roof. Good times, man. Did I tell you about the time we dug and built our own privy? I wasn’t too privy to it, but it had to be done. Built the shit box over it and everything.
“How could a privileged snot face like you understand?”
That’s the thing though. I’ll never understand. I’ve had everything handed to me on a gold platter.
“The rapacious property-owning American bourgeoisie admits no limits, possesses no scruples and does not share the fears and the cowardice of our bourgeoisie. [They are] violent, absolute criminal. When they feel the need, they simply stain their hands with proletarian blood. They lack any human sense. They are only interested in exploitation.” - Mussolini (il duce)
I lost my cool there for a second. I’m alright now.
The pez never loses his cool. He just keeps getting cooler. If cool was chocolate ice cream, the pez would be Baskin Robbins.
Hahaha, that’s a beautiful quote. I will be using it.
This is my go-to fascist movie.