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All Empires Decline Eventually
#American #decline is inevitable, not just real. All powers are subject to adjustment and stagnation.
For one thing, #empires need #emperors. #Trump’s earliest executive orders testify far more to the desire to be powerful, and exude power, than to any credible policy agenda that could achieve the restorationism he so clearly desires.
It is a fool’s errand to reverse any empire’s relative decline, and rank immorality to try.
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They’re getting close to completing the #restoration of the #ancient mausoleum at the #roman #villa of the Gordian #emperors. #rome #archaeology #heritage #ancientromeruins #ancientrome #romanempire #ancienthistory
From #Roman #emperors to #rowdy #cowboys, #Hollywood’s #depiction of #masculinity has always been, well, pretty #gay.
#Queer #characters are increasingly cropping up in a range of #genres that have typically reinforced #conventional #norms and #whatitmeans to be a #man.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Movies #Representation #Culture https://www.queerty.com/feature/from-roman-emperors-to-rowdy-cowboys-hollywoods-depiction-of-masculinity-has-always-been-well-pretty-gay
Allegedly, #Prighozhin’s march on #Moscow has ended in a deal brokered by #Lukashenko, in which #Wagner Group forces will head to #Belarus and … become Lukashenko’s #Varangian Guard, or something? Assuming of course #Putin doesn’t wait for them to get strung out on the road and bomb them all to bits.
I can’t help but be struck by how antiquated all this feels. The Varangian Guard reference above is deliberate—the whole thing is #Byzantine in both the original and modern senses of that word. Shades of #Belisarius and #Justinian. Yes, I know I’m mixing up periods, and the analogy is inexact in all kinds of ways: history doesn’t repeat itself, but sometimes it rhymes.
#Kings and #emperors and shifting personal loyalties, not cold-blooded calculation of national interests. It’s not the way #modern states make #war—even though #Ukraine may well be the first modern war of the twenty-first century, through future eyes. Something older, more visceral, rising from ancient slumber.
Hell of a time to be alive. I suppose that’s always true.
The #Alessandrino district of #Rome was demolished in the 1930s when #viaforiimperiali was constructed and the #forums of the #emperors #excavated, but traces of the neighbourhood and its houses -floors, tiles, walls - can still be found in the shadow of the #ancient #monuments. #ruins #archaeology
“Enjoy My Flames: On Heavy Metal’s Fascination with Roman Emperors” by Jeremy Swist, Lapham’s Quarterly, 3/23/2022 https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/enjoy-my-flames #roman #heavymetal #emperors
Cantwell said #Gardeners #Dream bigger dreams than #Emperors & that is #True. There's a lot of #Ego in #Gardens.
I once went to a #Fairy #Garden #Workshop w/ a friend who is a therapist.
We saw a garden w/a fairy in the middle of a #Stream. I moved the fairy to the riverbank. My #Friend laughed.
"That fairy is a #SelfObject. The #Gardener that put her there can't make a #Decision. Until then, she'll put the fairy back in the #River."
#Gardens are the gardener.