Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist by training so it is perhaps unsurprising that he finds the analogies between Petronius’s Satyricon and the cultural rot of our own age.
https://amgreatness.com/2019/05/15/our-modern-satyricon/
But I still praise him for the accuracy of his point by point comparison. Comparing the present age to post-republican Rome has become a common trope but Hanson points out just how accurate it is. Nothing new here, just the scholarly expertise of the author pointing out the exactness of the analogy.
This is great stuff
Does the OCF webpage have descriptors that include “Twilight Zone”, “Nature Photography”, et. al.?
I think there’s a large audience for this stuff
Yes. There is a pretty thorough index. And I even get some google search traffic for these. Unsurprisingly a lot of the searches for photography come from Europe and Asia and the searches from the US are for the political and cultural stuff. Shatner is a big favorite.
Yeah, photog has created a fantastic blog. He’ll tell you, I regularly mine his website for inspiration for my own blog (at https://theportlypolitico.wordpress.com). I particularly enjoy the political analysis and the _Twilight Zone_ reviews.
Well the subject matter for politics is the the Twilight Zone at this point.
Amen to that, photog. Your summary of the episode “Little People” was quite good; perhaps Craig is a metaphor for our uncaring, sadistic elites? http://orionscoldfire.com/index.php/2019/05/15/the-twilight-zone-complete-series-review-season-3-episode-28-the-little-people/
Wait till you see what’s coming out tonight. Serling must have known a lot of awful people.
Read this quote and tell me that isn’t describing current European Elite and US Coastal populations “The abrupt transition from a society of rural homesteaders into metropolitan coastal hubs had created two Romes. One world was a sophisticated and cosmopolitan network of traders, schemers, investors, academics and deep-state imperial cronies. Their seaside corridors were not so much Roman as Mediterranean. And they saw themselves more as “citizens of the world” than as mere Roman citizens. Never in the history of civilization had a generation become so wealthy and leisured, so eager to gratify every conceivable appetite—and yet so bored and… Read more »
Well, if it looks like the Cloud People are going to win I’m going to work for Atilla the Hun.