Studying civilizational collapse through Rome. The Roman Pattern | Founder, @cybmedia
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The Roman Pattern is real.
Learn to read patterns & you can predict the future, but not only that you can prevent the downslide.
Grateful for this conversation with @ShawnRyan762 on the @ShawnRyanShow !
Watch the full, two-hour interview:
youtube.com/watch?v=HgTx9bBq…
Just wrapped up an excellent interview with @SeanBerube4 for the @athenaeumbc podcast on The Abolition of Man.
Excited for this one!
Jeremy Ryan Slate retweeted
Augustus learned from the mistakes of those who came before him.
He saw how Pompey gained the people's admiration, how Caesar's growing ambition led to his downfall, and how dangerous the fight for power could be.
Instead of repeating their mistakes, Augustus took notes and played the long game.
Sometimes, the key to power is learning from someone else's history.
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@MRitland
Augustus learned from the mistakes of those who came before him.
He saw how Pompey gained the people's admiration, how Caesar's growing ambition led to his downfall, and how dangerous the fight for power could be.
Instead of repeating their mistakes, Augustus took notes and played the long game.
Sometimes, the key to power is learning from someone else's history.
Share this with a history lover and follow for more fascinating stories from the ancient world!
@MRitland
After 52 BC, elections in the Roman Republic were effectively dead.
In 52 BC, Rome was still holding elections, but they had stopped deciding anything.
Vote buying had moved the interest rate, Pompey came home from one election with blood on his toga, and a mob burned the Senate House as a funeral pyre.
The men who answered it were Bibulus and Cato, the Republic's most stubborn defenders, and they proposed making Pompey consul with no colleague at all.
If you'd been in the Senate that winter, would you have voted for it?
The full episode follows Rome from the violent elections of 55 BC to the murder of Clodius on the Appian Way and Pompey's sole consulship.
The Murder of Clodius: The Day Rome's Elections Stopped Mattering
youtube.com/watch?v=FDc7Wqh_…
Jeremy Ryan Slate retweeted
Marcus Aurelius never wrote his private journals expecting the world to read them thousands of years later.
He was simply trying to make sense of life, leadership, and his own thoughts. And the funny thing? He probably wouldn’t even want the fame he has today.
He saw leadership as a duty, not a way to glorify himself. Maybe that’s exactly why his words still matter today.
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@MRitland
Rome’s money didn’t lose its value overnight.
It happened gradually, until people started losing confidence in it.
Sound familiar?
Prices rise, money buys less, and what once felt normal starts to change.
Follow for more fascinating stories from the ancient world!
Marcus Aurelius never wrote his private journals expecting the world to read them thousands of years later.
He was simply trying to make sense of life, leadership, and his own thoughts. And the funny thing? He probably wouldn’t even want the fame he has today.
He saw leadership as a duty, not a way to glorify himself. Maybe that’s exactly why his words still matter today.
Share this with someone who loves history and follow for more stories from the ancient world!
@MRitland
On New Year’s Eve, 406 AD, barbarian tribes walked across one of the most secure frontiers in the Roman Empire and Rome never got it back.
The whole thread is about what made that possible.
🧵 A country’s border is only as strong as the willingness to defend it.
Once the people on the wall stop caring whether the wall holds, the wall is already gone.
The rest is just a matter of time.
Here's why...
17/ History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes.
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