LettersfromRome

🏛️ Cicero black pilling from 50s BC. A couple of quotes to show you we aren’t alone 2000 years on: ‘Such is the decay, almost to extinction, of all our institutions.’ ‘My dear friend, not only have we completely lost the vital essence of the free state — even its outward complexion and aspect is gone. There is no Republic any longer to give me joy and solace.’ This is not to depress you - actually, maybe it is! 😁 Cicero was quite the melancholic, you need to be aware. But in all honesty, we need to understand that we have no control over the vices of those who get to lead nations. The only thing we have control over is our response to how we go about our own lives. And that must be via a sense of freedom from anyone who dares to tell us how to live.

Better and better 😆🔥

“Is anything real, Dave?" It’s what many of us are asking now.

Treachery appears to have no bounds in the pursuit of money.

Look at the UK 😳

If only more people were awake - or even cared to wake up - maybe our country stands a chance of restoration. Demi is doing her best to make people understand the evil running rampant within our bureaucracies.

Australia in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons - although, hopefully this exposure will one day help free us from our moronic and authoritarian leadership.

You can never tire of reading Rome 🏛

🏛 The Enduring Legacy of Political Hypocrisy During the turmoil of 52 BC, when the Roman Republic did not have a functioning government, Pompey was appointed sole consul in order to restore order. He appointed two consuls who passed a decree that no office holder could assume a command abroad until five years had elapsed from stepping down from that office. The reason according to Dio Cassius: “By not being in a position of power immediately after holding office, would cease their craze for office.” However, that did not stop Pompey from extending his command in Spain shortly after that decree was imposed. That we continue to be surprised by the antics of politicians today, is a wasted endeavour.

Watch out for Australia’s announcement shortly. Imagine trying to utterly destroy your own nation. And with such abandon.

🏛️ I’ve been researching for a fictional project I’m writing (not a novel, not yet anyway), and have delved into the deeper concepts of the ancient Roman villa. The respectable Roman did not have just a villa - they had a suburban parkland. Known as a “horti.” It was a landscaped garden estate that had a villa as part of it, rather than the other way around. In addition to the standard atrium, tablinum (office), triclinium (dining room), cubicular (bedrooms), this rather grand concept (by our reckoning) included at least one peristyle, shaded walkways, outside dining areas, formal garden compartments, fountains, small shrines or temple, porticos and pergolas. The image here projects a rather modest horti - not the more palatial garden estate of Cicero, Caesar or Crassus’ standing in society. This would be appropriate for say Cicero’s daughter, Tullia, who married Furius Crassipes in 56/55 BC. And despite its modest presentation, it was also appropriate for a meeting to occur between Cicero and the richest man in Rome, Crassus, to resolve their long running feud: ‘And Crassus, as though to make all Rome witness of our reconciliation, set out for his province virtually from my doorstep. He offered to dine with me, and did so at my son-in-law Crassipes’ place in the suburbs.” As we can see, even a more modest garden estate can serve the needs of quarreling elites when needs be!

This looks good 🏛

Australia is governed by twisted and evil individuals.