Roman Republic
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Roman Republic is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between November 11, 2021 and June 20, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “this is one of the big stories of the first century BCE to the 12th century CE. This is precisely how the Roman Republic was destroyed”; “the early Roman republic seem strong contenders”; “restoring the virtue of the ancient days of the Roman Republic”. It most often appears alongside Argentina, Canada, Mexico.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: November 11, 2021
- Last seen: June 20, 2024
Appears In
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- Your Book Review: Why Nations Fail
- Fake Tradition Is Traditional
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- Argentina (2 shared issues)
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- Canada (2 shared issues)
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- Mexico (2 shared issues)
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- Napoleon (2 shared issues)
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- Scott (2 shared issues)
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- United States (2 shared issues)
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- 1950s family structure (1 shared issues)
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- ACX comments (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
So, rather than saying that this is "one of the big stories of the late 20th/early 21st century," I would say that this is one of the big stories of the first century BCE to the 12th century CE. This is precisely how the Roman Republic was destroyed. And it's far from novel even in modern times.
Venice was supposedly "on the brink of becoming the world’s first inclusive society". Even sticking with a purely Eurocentric view, Athens and the early Roman republic seem strong contenders, whatever unspecified threshold is used.
Modern traditionalists look back fondly on Victorian times. But the Victorians didn’t get their culture by just doing stuff without ever thinking of the past. They were writing pseudo-Arthurian poetry, building neo-Gothic palaces, and painting pre-Raphaelite art hearkening back to the early Renaissance. And the Renaissance itself was based on the idea of a re-naissance of Greco-Roman culture. And the Roman Empire at its peak spent half of its cultural energy obsessing over restoring the virtue of the ancient days of the Roman Republic:
As for the ancient Roman Republic, they spoke fondly of a Golden Age when they were ruled by the god Saturn. As far as anyone knows, Saturn is a wholly mythical figure. But if he did exist, there are good odds he inspired his people (supposedly the fauns and nymphs) through stories of some even Goldener Age that came before.