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1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 10:21:43 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   Turns out the trend of asking the men in your life how often they #PonderAncientRome originated in Sweden a year ago.

   It reached me this week with some influencer expressing astonishment over how often her partner would, without her realizing it, ponder Ancient Rome.

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   1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 10:26:01 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

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      As for me: Of course I do! On a weekly basis! How could I not!

      The world was shaped by European colonialism and the legal and social systems of every place on Earth have been touched by structures good or bad that trace back to Rome.

      With the global system seemingly on the way toward collapse, looking back at earlier collapses for guidance makes sense.

   2. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Sep-2023 12:19:43 EDT lnxw48a1

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      @clacke Interesting. I just recently saw someone mention it. I don't know how often I "ponder", but I have been trying to fill in some holes in my history education, which necessarily means reading about Rome (and Phoenicia, Greece, Persia, China, Mongolia, Kyivan Rus, various Germanic tribes, Aztecs, Incas, Mayans, etc).