>>5402348We're 2000 years removed from them. We're not religious fanatics blindly following words of a bygone time. They have lessons to teach, but we have to interpret and adapt them. We can take their lessons on civilization, improve them and spread them.
What I meant by what I said was their spread of culture and information, of infrastructure, the idea of Rome itself. Mankind's oldest and longest living 'american dream' before the American Dream.
That's where the American Dream was even born from. Before the forefathers of America believed in America, they believed in Rome.
Republic and Senate. These aren't just borrowed words, they are meant to symbolize something bigger. A statement of intention.
Rome lives in us. Let us teach it to others.