why does the far right in the west obsess over ancient rome so much? There seems to be a bizarre schizoid aspect to this due to the interplay between the roman political state in it's late stage collapse and modernity and the synchrotism between christianity and modern hodge podge "paganism" as an antimonian revolt against dowmwind secular trends that cannot be truly ever reconciled as long as one is fixated on absolute ideals regarding the totality of such things but part of this seems like a cargo cult. From what I've studied the truth is a bit more complex and impossible to reduce to crude analogies to the modern day.>"At that time they say that the Emperor Honorius in Ravenna received the message from one of the eunuchs, evidently a keeper of the poultry, that Rome had perished. And he cried out and said, 'And yet it has just eaten from my hands!' For he had a very large cock, Rome by name; and the eunuch comprehending his words said that it was the city of Rome which had perished at the hands of Alaric, and the emperor with a sigh of relief answered quickly: 'But I thought that my fowl Rome had perished.' So great, they say, was the folly with which this emperor was possessed.—Procopius, The Vandalic"
I don't though. 'ate the Romans. 'luv me swamp. Simple as.
>>532261641>why does the far right in the west obsess over ancient roame so much?It's mostly Americans. They know they have no culture of their own except for nigger music, so the white mutts appropriate various European cultures like Rome, the crusaders, vikings, nazis etc. Weird cause they hate Europeans as much as they want to be us.
Ancient powerful origin myth is fascinating, simple as. Just look at the persian empire for the middle east or the mongolian empire for central Asia. Even in fiction, like lord of the rings, the world was usually grand all powerful long before the actual plot. Living in decay of something once omnipotent may described as philosophical, but at it's heart, it's just more entertaining than>progress is slow>progress is all we got
>>532261641History is always relevant but people with very little historical background read too much into vague pop-cultural ideas of what happened and why.The average low IQ Rightoid’s take on Eastern Rome being a good example
>>532261641Wtf is this pseudobabble?
Everyone admits pre christcuck Rome
>>532264819Germans, French appropriated Rome aswell
