>reading /his/ philosophy threads from 2015-2016
It's like I'm a peasant from the dark ages looking back at the peak of Rome.

>>17786124 (OP)
speaking of the dark ages, just a reminder le monks saved le civilization during le dark ages

How about you rise from serfdom and MAKE your own Pax Romana, anon? How about that, bitch?

Now imagine having lived through that.

I shouldn't be shocked at the difference culturally over 10 years but it's still night and day, Rome circa 100 AD versus 1000 AD.

Scipio, when he looked upon the city as it was utterly perishing and in the last throes of its complete destruction, is said to have shed tears and wept openly for his enemies. After being wrapped in thought for long, and realizing that all cities, nations, and authorities must, like men, meet their doom; that this happened to Ilium, once a prosperous city, to the empires of Assyria, Media, and Persia, the greatest of their time, and to Macedonia itself, the brilliance of which was so recent, either deliberately or the verses escaping him, he said:

A day will come when sacred Troy shall perish,

and Priam and his people shall be slain.

And when Polybius speaking with freedom to him, for he was his teacher, asked him what he meant by the words, they say without any concealment he named his own country, for which he feared when he reflected on the fate of all things human. Polybius actually heard it and recalls it in his history.

>>17786124 (OP)
Caused by the same thing too, christcucks.