Why don’t we? “Just to give a fun sense of how wild these years were, in brief what happens is: Pyrrhus gets hard shut out by Lysimachus’ much larger army in 286, retreating back to Epirus with his tail between… Read More »Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIIb: Pyrrhus
It is important to delegate and build capable leaders to.have a large state or an organization. “Eleven independent commands. And that wasn’t an abnormal year! And then all of these experienced commanders head back to the Senate, where they’re available in… Read More »Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IIb: Handfuls of Maniples
Political structure matters. “neither Quintus nor Maximus are going back to their farm after this: they’re going back to Rome to be major figures in Roman politics, living on their large estates since senators were required by law to be… Read More »Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator’s Iconic Opening Battle, Part II
Brief overview why Marxism is bad on its own and no implementation will work.
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You can interpret any text in many ways. “What Paul probably intended as survival advice for a tiny persecuted minority became, once Christianity had power, a blanket authorization for state authority. The text didn’t change. The context did. And suddenly… Read More »From Galilee to Empire: The Institutional Capture of Christianity
Economics dictates a lot.
Use the machine against the machine.
Religion in another form is still doing the damage. “A system built on terror produced terrified people who perpetuated terror. A system built on lies produced people who could no longer distinguish truth. A system built on the surveillance of… Read More »Secularized Worship
Economy and Ecology come from the same language concept. Both come from oikos, which means “house”. Economy is joined with nemein, which means “to manage”. Ecology is joined with logia, which means “study of”. Nowadays we focus a lot on… Read More »Economy vs. Ecology