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To: Cheerio; Cicero
[Art.] ABC has fixated over the news, devoting 12 minutes and 47 seconds of coverage to the arrival of America's new "royal" child.

This is exactly the kind of "cult of personality" politics that fascinated, then destroyed, the Roman Republic, leaving behind only a personality cult of the emperor Augustus and his imperial Julio-Claudian family.

Servile modern voters seem drawn to that crap -- precisely because they've never been educated about the malefic effects of family politics on polities. Pick one: the Peisistratids, the Alcmaeonidae, the Ptolemies, the Julio-Claudians, the Severans, the Visconti and DeMedicis. There's a civics lesson for you: "Omnia fatis in peius ruere."

26 posted on 04/22/2014 11:35:37 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus
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To: lentulusgracchus

Well, the cult of personality has been ruling for as long as I can remember.

It was telling when Vanity Fair ceased to be an evil symbol warning against pride and worldliness in “Pilgrim’s Progess” and became a fashionable magazine for those who want to follow the latest trends.


27 posted on 04/22/2014 11:40:33 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: lentulusgracchus
they've never been educated about the malefic effects of family politics on polities

I'll name you three more, from the other side of the world: in chronological order, the Fujiwaras in Heian Japan, the Qings (Jurchen Manchus) in China, and the Nehrus in India. Moreover, even today, there are essentially two families in Japan who have been flip-flopping the Prime Minister position since the mid-1800s.

29 posted on 04/22/2014 11:51:59 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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