Posted on 09/24/2023 10:51:22 AM PDT by jfd1776
By now you have likely heard of a trending question in social media: women and girls are encouraged to ask the men in their lives how often they think of ancient Rome, with the expectation that they will be surprised to find that the answer is “frequently” or even “daily.”
Speaking for myself, I have never kept tabs on how often I think of particular subjects, or of exactly which subjects I think of during a given day. I doubt if many people do.
Certainly daily, or at least, almost daily, we all think of our work, our friends, our family, our heritage in some way. I hope, too, that daily, we think of our country, our relationship with God, and what our own personal eventual legacy will be.
How often do we think of entertainment – the books, television shows, movies, plays, and sports that frivolously occupy our time – or maybe not so frivolously?
And then there’s the totally mundane. We drive on roads, we walk on concrete sidewalks. We study and use mathematics. Our houses and civic buildings have indoor plumbing connected to a citywide water and sewer system, which we use whether we think about it or not. Our towns have fire brigades; our attorneys write and keep our “last will and testament” for us.
And one or two times per year, sometimes more often than that, we have elections.
How many of these things don’t have something to do with Rome?
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History is there and can teach us a great deal if we will study and profit from it. Where else but Washington can we see a Republic dying and the forms only, being maintained, a hollow shell as the Imperium begins.
Our Republic has been referred to as the “Great Experiment”.
If the experiment fails, it is because we failed to keep it alive.
September 26th, 2023 Edition
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