24 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  2. I have watched exactly 0:23 seconds of this, and I have a problem with the characterization of “Rome” as somehow having had the “first professional army”.
    The Spartans were, what, exactly? And the Persians? Those guys may have been jerks, but they were pretty well organized.
    I’m not trying to be negative. I have only watched just over c. 30 seconds. I’m just saying. I will watch the rest.

  3. “Governments always end up abusing their power, no matter the initial intention.”
    Yes. In this way, governments are like malevolent children.
    Except they knowingly abuse their power with the express intent of expanding it as far as possible until some force of nature curtails that expansion.
    As to Rome, culturally Rome was very proud of their LAW.
    The very idea that Romans were a nation of laws(in a world of Chaos) and elected people to maintain and legislate law and enforce it was important to the Roman people. When the Caesars began to raise themselves above the Senate and ignore the LAW and make the elected Senate a hollow institution, that was the beginning of the end of Rome because the LAW was at the core of their cultural life and the raising of that culture above the others.
    Many people here can point to this or that development which hastened the fall of Rome, but what made those malign developments possible was that the framework of Law ceased to guide them as a people and provide a lively aspect to their continuity and healthy cultural growth.

  4. The difference between Rome, Sparta, and Persia was the fighting technique. While the Persians and Spartans were pretty formidable forces they fought as warriors rather then soldiers. A typical battle up until the Romans changed things, were essentially large groups of fighters duking it out one on one in a massive mob. Roman soldiers fought as a single unit and did not do the manno a manno that was typical until then. They trained as units, fought as units and lived as units. Much like the current modern militaries still do today.

  5. And then several families became professional politicians in Rome ,and the republic became an oligarchy and finally an empire.
    Early indications of Clinton’s and bushes and in canada Trudeaus and Layton’s and family compacts

  6. I don’t worry too much about what happened 2000 years ago. As a matter of fact I don’t worry too much about what happened yesterday. But I do, somewhat, worry about what will happen on October the 19th should Tom Mulcair rise to power. With that, I’m going to CBC.Ca to straighten out the wayward liberals and socialists who may have befallen into that horrible abyss of ignorance. May God have mercy on their souls.

  9. Stunning parallel to the current implosion of western democracies in the face of the barbarians of today. Written and directed by Obama and his quislings.

  14. I had the same thought. I think the first professional army, in the modern sense, was that developed by Phillip of Macedonia. It enabled im to field an army year round.

  16. I concur…..that was my immediate reaction to that blather of Rome fielding the first professional army…
    Not that professional are always first rate…..The Isreali’s are the ultimate citizen army…..and the Swiss.
    Two great minds think alike….fools seldom differ….

  18. ““The formula’s everything to the establishment, because they control it,” Limbaugh said on his daily radio show.”
    “The consortium’s Oct. 8 debate – made up of the CBC, CTV and Global networks – is in jeopardy,”.
    …-
    “Limbaugh: Trump May ‘Blow Up’ the ‘Establishment’ Debate Formula”
    http://www.jacksnewswatch.com/
    …-
    “Harper, Mulcair and Trudeau confirm Globe debate attendance”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/harper-mulcair-and-trudeau-confirm-globe-debate-attendance/article25820792/

  20. The election contest in three easy points:
    Justin’s feet smell.
    Mulcair is French.
    Harper is “oily”.

  21. It was swell to listen to Rush Limbaugh’s anniversary program yesterday morning, not having to work on Alberta’s Heritage Day.

  22. Sean McCormick, a SDA regular, on the Rebel…
    Ezra Levant… “A recent story at the Rebel’s Megaphone blog caught my eye: Sean McCormick, an Alberta writer and photographer, uses his camera to tell “good news” stories about the energy industry that environmentalists and the media don’t want you to know.”
    http://www.therebel.media/alberta_meet_the_photographer

  23. This series is pretty superficial but still good to think that some children somewhere will be learning about our history.
    The most interesting period of Rome, AFAIK, is from Marius to Augustus, where there was a slow destruction of the republic to a dictatorship; all due to the venality of political leaders.

  24. I dunno Paladin. I am the most un-knowledgeable chit house historians but I seem to recall the Greeks used a fighting formation known as the Phalanx and that it was modified and improved and replaced by the Roman Legion. Their discipline allowed them to face down and defeat enemies that massively outnumbered them just as America does today.
    I think what happened to Rome is what is happening to us today: when it becomes advantageous to certain individuals to undermine and sabotage the empire and those individuals are not punished – they sew discord and discontent that is harmful to EVERYONE – including those that are stupid enough to go along with it. In Rome, at the height of their power – cretins like Obama would have been a slave to his betters, and Hillary would have been crucified or assassinated. A mere two generations ago they would probably have been charged with treason in America.
    We assume that a new civilization will arise to replace this one when it falls and I think that is a very flawed assumption.

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