Post #4053957

2026-07-24 04:26 UTC

Cincinnatus was a great inspiration to U.S. colonists and thus there's a city of Cincinnati and various orders and organizations consecrated to Cincinnatus. He was a legendary Roman farmer, esteemed from the Republic days, a great soldier who was called upon to save Rome from an invasion of some sort (or maybe just one of Rome's many many civil insurrections) so they drafted him as dictator, whence he did the ideal thing that everyone mimics now: he took absolute power for six months (the statutory period) and then went back to his farm. What a hero. I'm doing the Charles Foster Kane clap here. (cont'd)

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@mxchara@seattle.pink 2026-07-24 04:28

The legend might even be true, properly historical, and I still roll my eyes at it. One could never possibly trust such a system to work properly more than once. Once you start lapsing into absolute dictatorship even a little, people get to wanting more of it. It becomes just as it's become in "the West" and especially in a United States boiling over with cultists of Christ the King: nobody can imagine any other way of doing anything. And it's such a rotten way to do things. The techlords demonstrate themselves. They are bad at shit, yet #tech culture and U.S. #media still treats these stumblebums like movie stars. (cont'd)

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@nyanpasu64@donotsta.re 2026-07-24 05:57

@mxchara@seattle.pink > it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. i can only dream of a system of society where none have power and control over others, and where that's not possible the structures protect the needs of the vulnerable at the expense of the comfortable, wealthy, and powerful

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