Still thinking.
Today about the similarities between Rome and the USA. Rome was the wonder of the world two thousand years ago. It ruthlessly enforced pax romana (I think that's right) just like we enforce pax USA, also with varying degrees of success and squandering resources at staggering rates.
The rich and privileged ruled Rome and bought their way everywhere, just like the banking and corporate tycoons of today. The details are different. The system hasn't changed much at all. Lesser people were pawns and sword fodder, necessry to keep everything functioning but of no real account to those at the top.
I keep hoping reason and principle will triumph in the end, but I'm also a realist, and what I see and hear everyday doesn't enourage deep optimism.
Guess I'll check up on some more stuff about Rome. That's what history is written for.
About Me
- Allen C. Dexter
- I am an escapee from cultic religion who spent 22 years of my life caught up in the Armstrongist Worldwide Church of God. I have since become an ardent agnostic atheist on the order of Thomas Paine, one of our great founding fathers. My purpose is to further as much as possible what Paine started in the 18th century. Thomas Paine had the following to say about his book in his forward: "TO MY FELLOW-CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: I PUT the following work under your protection. It contains my opinions upon Religion. You will do me the justice to remember, that I have always strenuously supported the Right of every Man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it. The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is Reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall. Your affectionate friend and fellow-citizen, THOMAS PAINE"
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