tweet and i thought it was amazing because this is a tweet from the previous empire before the roman empire which was the greek empire socrates in the cypherpunks were right i guess they weren't really technically an empire moment might have been the 1st genuine empire but the secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old but i'm. building the new so i think that's really important right now today as we see this globalization and just in time globalization neo liberalism ation the sort of elevation of mediocrity that has happened and the lack of any sort of competency that it's constantly get celebrated well that's over and we have to like don't even try to reform it or refine our fix it it's just over the roman roads and there are lessons to christianity not so much that over the roads these ideas enter rome it was over these roads that this idea exited rome in other words the apostles of christ were able to spread the word of christ far and wide because of the roads that the romans had built and they are correct that those rails if you will. for affected a paradi

itwas not seen as the end, was seen as the beginning of a new roman empire. andthereafter, students fascists needed to figure out how to become rulers of that empire. dr. bischof: so you could probably argue this, too, that building the empire helped radicalize fascist racism further. the ethiopian is campaign, and then there is the next step in the radicalization with the minister of education and writing lies that begin to thatde -- writing laws exclude jews from the italian population. dr. mclean: after 1936, the fascist state creates a series of laws in the empire and at home to make sure there were clear divisions between rulers and ruled, right? andact, while the antalya -- the italian empire is not settling as early as the french thereddish -- and ritesh, regimeish, the fascist some of the most racist africa. in the fact that italians kept blurring the lines between ruling and ruled meant at least two mussolini they had not understood the importance of maintaining the strength of the italian race. laws were written for the school system in terms of keep

explains how the fascist state used schools to advance the goals of racial strife, creating a new roman empireorleans stage this event in february of 2019. >> on with tonight's progr

some lasted longer like the roman empire but all follow the same pattern to decline.among the characteristics that contributed to those declines were massive national debt. the united states is a $23 trillion, and growing, just the interest on it alone is greater than the gross domestic product of some nations. i like president trump state of union speech the other night except for one thing. he didn't talk about cutting a single government program or even the rate of increase in spending. this is the only nonpartisan thing that happens in this town is spending. you can always get agreement on more. the second contribution to the decline of great nations and superpowers and empires is uncontrolled immigration without assimilation. we want people to come to america but we want them to come legally and in an orderly fashion, , and then to be assimilated like the immigrants of the past and become fully american, not hyphenated americans as we have too often today. then there's the loss of a moral sense also contributing to the decline of great nations. in america today a

crimea, once part of the roman empire, it fell to the ottomans, then to the tsars, and the soviets.t recently it has been part of ukraine. the beauty belies geopolitical tension, for crimea has become a flashpoint between east and west. this is why. in 2014 masked soldiers in unmarked uniforms seized control of a ukrainian peninsula, crimea. they acquired the nickname the little green men. but they were russian special forces sent in by president putin after the ukrainians‘ pro—western revolution. at a hastily organised referendum, voters backed joining russia, but the poll widely condemned wasn't internationally recognised. it had taken moscow less than a month to occupy and annex a piece of its neighbour. for many russians this was cause for celebration. i first met irina in moscow back in the early 19905. she has a second home now in crimea. emotionally it means very much because if we look back into the history, i mean two or three centuries back, since that time the crimean history has always been connected with russia. in the west as you know there's a lot of criticism of vlad

that word czar, comes from caesar, the roman empire. re russians who will tell you that the natural successor to the great empires of rome and constantinople is moscow. russia never was a normal country. russians do not know how to live in a normal country. russia was built as an empire, russia has existed as an empire. because the essence is, we‘re great, we have to have areas of influence, and we have to have buffer states between ourselves and the outside world. so, this is an empire. it was communist russia that would acquire the mother of all buffer zones. in world war ii, as the red army pushed hitler‘s troops back, central and eastern europe fell under moscow‘s control. on paper, most of these countries were independent. in reality, the kremlin called the shots, in what was now the soviet empire. as cold war set in, this buffer zone not only gave moscow a sense of security, it made it a superpower. until 1989. this was the year people power brought down the iron curtain. across europe, communist regimes fell like dominoes. even pa

what made the roman empire feasible? it was not the legions, it was not the trade routes, it was not the gladius. it was the fact that the romans controlled the mediterranean. it was the fact that the romans could use the mediterranean anyway they wanted to. they could move troops and they could move goods, and that is what made the roman empire great. he said, if you look through times since the times of the romans, there has always been one nation, it seems, that was the leader in sea power. and that one nation that commanded the sea was always able to be economically powerful and influential. he brings this all the way up to the 1700s and great britain, and he says, look at great britain. great britain is a little tiny island. it is small. it has a small population compared to russia or to france or anyplace like that, but they have got the biggest empire in the world. the sun never sets on the british empire because it is all over the place. why? because they have commanded the sea. and if the united states -- now, he

once part of the roman empire, it fell to the ottomans, then the czars and the soviets.t recently it has been part of ukraine, but the beauty belies geopolitical tension. crimea has become a flashpoint between east and west. this is why. in 2014, mask to soldiers in unmarked uniforms seized control of the ukrainian peninsula, crimea. they acquired the nickname, the little green men. they were russian special forces sent in by president putin after ukraine's pro—western revolution. and a hastily organised referendum vote backed joining russia but the poll, widely condemned but was not internationally recognised. it had taken moscow internationally recognised. it had ta ken moscow less than internationally recognised. it had taken moscow less than a month to occu py taken moscow less than a month to occupy and annex a piece of its neighbour. for many russians, this was because for celebration. ifirst met this woman in moscow, back in the early 1990s. she has a second home now in crimea. emotionally it means very much. if we look back into the history, two all three centuri

bridge was a very important artery cause of 4 kids from the holy roman empire it was on the view regular from like sick to frankfurt or. we liked it very much or if you leave and you were able to cross it until 195200 you know where you. lived in the house on the border of mind of thomas and then that ended here here she was there were more and more fences. first a wire mesh fence. then a watch tower was built on the great. and then everything was closed off and there was nothing around alice cause it was a no man's land really i mean months lot and how do i know what i did people trying to flee across the. worse very often my brother escaped in 1962 he was a student in flyback and he and his friends played jazz and that got them into trouble with this band so they swam across in august 1960 to. try and. did they succeed as they made it out of them and november of 1909 the border opened what was that like your family was reunited so was germany euphoria must have been immense i suppose. it's the best thing to have happened to us at the end of the 20th century. it's a feeling that you don

they refer to themselves as romans and the roman empire collapsed in fourth century a.d. but that sustained itself for another 1100 years until the 29th when the ottoman caliphate conquered and occupied constantinople and i askedthe question how did they do that ? there's a number of one, they selectively learned from their enemies, figuring out what our adversaries ardoing that is right all what is doing we would never in 1 million years to for extraordinarylegal reasons that they shortlist . >> secondly they really focused on not going into large wars of occupation outside their core territory alike the romans did instead of trying to occupy and govern forces that could move from threatened frontier to friends frontier as required. they had large groups of local allies, so local allies, military forces that are agile . they had certain core niche advanced technologies that they were able to acquire that were more capable than their adversaries. they had a very strong focus on domestic resiliency and having an efficient and effective governance, educational system at hom

the rise and fall of the roman empire.i add a few things and i think that is the greatest danger of all brit society that turns in on itself and begins to undercut the basic values that help to build and sustain it through wars, depressions, recessions and terrorism in all these other things as is committing suicide. again i will repeat myself but these studies have to be renewed by every generation and sometimes within generations or they evaporate. i think we are in danger of that right now that's what i wrote the book. >> host: let's say you are president thomas and you get one executive order. whether it's illegal and ration or the debt, which one thing can be changed to get this fast as result? >> guest: i don't think you can do it by executive order. >> host: this is pretend. you are president for a day. >> guest: they knew what they were doing when they had the stiff fusions of power. i think what the president has done on immigration and shifting funds to help build a wall. posted you think we are going to get the

was this development of very much non- decadent religious faith they did not in the end save the roman empirefrom rowan, but to preserve and carry forward roman elements into the future down to the present day and was sorta there when the empire finally went smash as a powerful force. i think you can imagine versions of that. you can imagine renewal under decadence that actually reinvigorate our civilization. you can imagine a renewal under decadent that when our civilization falls, create something into carry-on the best of our own legacy. that is the optimistic case. in fact, decadence has its virtues, alternatives that are a lot worse. the lives that we have now and we should regard life under decadence, not necessarily sorta like horrible burden but is something that is not ideal but potentially gift because it still leaves room for creativity, renewal and passed back to flourishing. joe: suppressing back to diamond is him enforcing, i did not anticipate the cardinal sarah in the book. and even less, anticipated ricountering the exceptionalism. [laughter]. 's of you have not read it, i ap

crimes that of coue they had n never committed, andd thenen they were judged and burd -- the holy roman empireid this -- and local authorities and leaders of city statates. so this was the systematic purging and killing of jews w wo are thought t to have or the cae against them was they were trying to put an to chchristian him and wereend poisoning the wells of chrhristians. ews killed. blame, scapegoating, we see ththat today with the coronanav. it is something that can happen, has repeatedly happen with t the idea that this is a chinese disease, a foreign disease we are told, and therefore shutting bordrders againsnst china men. we see chinese-americans, chchildren beingng attacked in schools, chinese-americans are afraid to ride alone on the new york subway, arranging to travel in groups. this is part of a long-term legacy of these diseases. and we see it in europe as well. china towns were deserted long before the coronavirus actually arrived. and the e right wing nationalist politicians of europe have been using that saying it has been imported by immigrants. so that is one of the false s

drew from their experience in spain which had come from arabia, which actually had come from the roman empire, system of irrigation ditches. they were not just irrigation ditches but furnished drinking water and water for the cattle and everybody else. everybody used the same water. nobody knew anything about germs. then they wondered why they had epidemics, but they figured that out. so san antonio was selected in large part because it had two major sources of water upstream. we had the head waters of the san antonio river and the head waters of san pedro creek. from those places, engineers very carefully -- land was rather flat. they were able to devise a system of half a dozen which came from those rivers and came through channels that followed the line of gravity downhill through what became san antonio and then back into the river so that the water continued to flow. san antonio used that system for more than 100 years. it wasn't until the end of the 19th century that the system was finally not in general use but there still are two at the spanish missions, one serving mission san juan,

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to sustain a democratic republic because right now we are headed towards the decay of the roman empires very end and the beginning of feudalism. this has to be reversed. as long as we are going to concentrate all power in those places in the country that are extremely expensive, we are going to tilt society construction.cal this dispersion i am talking about is one way to counteract this. the: a bit from the book on coming of neo-feudalism. the feudal revival -- what does the topic neo-feudalism mean? had in a have remarkable way an expansion of the middle class around the world, certainly in western countries and parts of east asia which have seen the dispersion of property and really unprecedented well-being by a lot of people. in the last 10 or 20 years we have been moving increasingly to concentrations of wealth and power that we have not seen for about 100 years. politicsgly polarized which is obviously not going to work very well in terms of maintaining a republic. our real challenge is that the middle class with the small property owner has been really under pressure. one of the

chrissy is among the highest paid models in the world and she's really built an empire with her brand, cravings. yet alison romanhis opened up a boiling conversation about how women support each other's accomplishments. >> welcome to our kitchen. it's me, chrissy. >> reporter: chrissy teigen, the model turned chef, has popular cookbooks, tv shows, even a line at target. now her recipe for success is under attack by another star in the food world. >> i'm not mellow at all, actually. >> reporter: cookbook author and "new york times" food columnist alison roman whose recipes, the stew and the cookies, have been viral sensations, coming for teigen's success. "what chrissy teigen has done is so crazy to me. she has an instagram page with over a million followers where it's like people running a content farm for her. that horrifies me and it's not something i ever want to do." the comments part of an interview with "consumer" magazine where roman also reveals her own effort to start a product line and that she sold a tv show too, a show teigen says she was helping to produce. >> this is an argument that's been happeni

right now we are headed towards the decay of the roman empire at its very end and the beginning of feudalism. and this has to be reversed. as long as we are going to concentrate all power in those places in the country that are extremely expensive, we are going to build our society increasingly into a hierarchical structure. this is what is already happening. this dispersion i'm talking about is one of the ways to counteract it. >> here is a little bit from the book. what does the topic neo-feudalism mean? way, ann a remarkable expansion of the middle-class around the world, certainly in western countries and parsed -- parts of east asia, has seen the dispersion of property and really unprecedented wealth by a lot of people. in the last 10 or 20 years we have been moving increasingly to concentrations of wealth and power haven't seen for 100 years. polarizedsingly politics, which is obviously not going to work well in terms of maintaining a republic. our real challenge is now that the middle class, with the small property owner, has been really under pressure. one of the great tragedies of t

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