It's always comforting to know that I'm smarter than the richest man in the world
he's defintiely not the richest anymore tho
absolutely the most divorced, though
I sometimes wonder if perhaps Rome was founded by two dudes who absolutely drank wolf milk
I sometimes wonder if those dudes were the sons of mars
Okay, but here me out. What if all the soldiers of Thebes (the kinda coolish Greek one, not the hella coolish Egyptian one) were just the teeth of dragons, and they fought one another until only the strongest survived, and then those survivors became a middling city state that still got Spartans to STFU about being based at long last?
The Rome is stored in the wolf
ngl that would be a funny bit if Musk started a whole ass Twitter thread rephrasing the entirety of the Aeneid in his usual raving manner, screeching about weapons and some dude from Troy
Is Grimes Dido in this narrative?
Dido
this brings back memories of the time i had to read a few paragraphs of the aeneid aloud in 7th grade but my friend changed Dido to Dildo with a pencil while i was reading and i got in trouble for laughing.
Rome is on an incredibly good spot for a settlement, and has probably been occupied constantly ever since there have been people in the area. It was almost certainly not "founded" by anyone. This is your brain on Great Man ideology.
Very few cities have an explicit founder unless they're relatively modern. The vast majority of settlements throughout human history just built up in good locations on their own. You're completely right, the conservative/liberal mind seems to be incapable of comprehending groups of people doing something on their own. They have to have a brilliant leader who told them to build a city.
They have to have a brilliant leader
(almost no women)
I think it comes from north america brain/settler brain, where settlers roll in, kill/replace the original inhabitants who were living there for millennia, and "found" a "new" settlement that you can assign a founder to. Then you export that way of thought to places where it has no basis in reality and you end up with roman statue avatar twitter guys (and musk apparently) actually believing that cities that have existed since cities began could have singular founding figures and didn't organically emerge because it's a good place to settle down
Iirc, we even have evidence of wars fought between the inhabitants of the different hills of rome, implying that it is such a good place for a settlement that multiple groups settled there before growing too large to be supported by the resources available on their hill alone.
One of the funniest things here is that unlike heavily mythologized figures like Gilgamesh or various biblical leaders Rome's legendary founder isn't even believed to have existed at all. Like they didn't just make up stories about some old king, he was just invented and named after the city relatively late in its existence. It'd be like if America's civic cult developed to the point that "Uncle Sam" was written into the historical record as a literal demigod who built Jamestown by himself and led a bloody crusade across the continent before writing the constitution himself.
One could simply enter a walled city by concealing soldiers in a gigantic, hollow wooden horse! I wonder if this was ever attempted by the ancient Greeks?
maybe the Persians where conquered by a Macedonian Army . They had the Phalanx at that time it could have been very effective against the Persians.. Archemidic Perisa did go under in 330 , maybe theres a conection..
He definitely has a folder on his computer labeled "NOT VIDEOS OF ME DRINKING WOLF MILK"
Wondering if this is because that meme that went around about how some (white) men think about Rome at least once a day. Probably felt he was missing out so vomited up this nonsense.
Wondering if this is because that meme that went around about how some (white) men think about Rome
you are a Visigoth auxiliary in the Roman Gaul. the year is 452AD, you have received grim news about the bleeding on the Catalaunian plains . As you are on your daily patrol, the ground starts to tremble,
you are going to die
There is some evidence of sub-mycenean/Luwian settlements in Apulia, which may be the core of the myth. But thinking something invented by Virgil 1500 years later is literally true is bizarre
To think you're the first person to think of it is even weirder lol.
Techbro culture's ruling class is absolutely full of "history is bunk" smuglords that repeat history in a blind stumbling way and call themselves genius pioneers.
What do you mean? Jumping to spurious conclusions based on gut feelings and vague word associations is definitely a valid methodology that certainly doesn't rehash word for word the exact same random theories by anglo aristocrat failsons in the 19th century when they took time off their phrenology blogging to go look at a collection of looted artifacts/contemporary forgeries.
well they are the idiots inventing "worse version of a bus system" and calling it a startup.
Really makes you think what a couple of feral kids raised by wolves could bring to democracy today.
CEO saying to a board: "we need an innovative idea, because we need something new." moment
"What if we virtualized all the hardware and put it on the cloud, then took our product and put it on the blockchain?"
receives endless accolades and money
Dawg we tried meritocracy, it was called Confucianism and the Imperial Test.
I'm willing to bet that there was more than one occasion of competent soldiers who were mostly men to land on the Italian peninsula during all of Antiquity.
imagining a classical roman rejecting the aeneid on the basis the trojans couldnt have been men if they lost to the greeks 
Wtf lol, where does he think the name 'Rome' comes from? Romulus is rolling in his grave.
Banned? DM Wmill to appeal.
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