If Athens went out and hired the military dictatorship of the Spartans

If you think that the people who sanction? this will be more merciful to us, caveat emptor. The country.

It’s time to turn from politicans and rhetoricians to statesmen. It is up to statesmen to speak for the people.

If Humpty Dumpty has a gre

Render unto Caesar what is Caesars, feh. Absolute power corrupts absolutely, feh.

On 6 senators in Roman history were uncorrupt enough to refuse a proconsulship. In ttfact, corruption was so commonplace in Rome that in between offices, or the course of

One of them, Cicero, Catalilne

History isn’t over. The simulacrum just hasn’t rewritten itself yet. If it doesn’t make any sense to you that Hegel sasaid doesn’t make sense to you, we need to revaluate the idea and understanding of what history is.

What is history? Is it a fact by fact accounting, writing it would be an undertaking that would involve an infinite number points. What is the singularity?Technology is not history, but a choice. [grab this from other post]

Fancy footwork like no other, can even show now is the future (simulacum)

Now is not just history’s end. Didn’t make it any longe. But the future must be reknewed and enough momentum to thrust us into a new epoch, the simulacum restored to its proper glory. But wiill the future look liek the past? As Jason Moghagheh said to me, “We must make new images.”

[Hyperlink: According to the most integral theoriest on the topic, the next phase in our evolutionary history is a global information age, but is the agrarian state even realized?

Although the vanguard took up the campagin so many years ago that we're reaching,s orry it took us so long, being esoteric. we were somewhat delayed by augustine, 2007 and but the shit of state has carried us nonethelss.

Now is the future but as I pointed out with the vanguard, there is the ship of state has carried us this far, dropped us on the shores of a sivler devestation. If I had returned, the time is now [algoithms]. My rhetoric has been eneded as much as ever, to fix the corruption fo the information in people’s minds. With true undestanding comes the enlightnement.The renaissance must necessarily be a revival fo the classical knowledge ew

For with the launch of an afterculture, histoy certainly isn’t done being played, not even by a republic. And we are a republic. “It is the end of the univese, and you’re all blogging.” Doctor Who, Utopia [could def sub in article on singulaity and 2012, or combine parts and categorize them into two

Of couse, this is exactly the thing that wills ave us. (communication). Now. For at last democracy can take its holy place in the republic. replcing black gold, and making a just republic [for a republic which is not just is not a republic] Platonic ideal is fulfilling itself, the epbulic is now possible.

First we must use to learn our republic. In our unbalanced system, teh president has the right to veto, 48t in rome, it was the tribute of the plebs with this right. The office was won only afte the people walked out of rome, leaving the city to the nobilites or senetes, but empty of people. So this was a Rome with a people stronger than us. More educated than us. They demanded a republic with checks and balances.

Their voting system also was unequal, as more votes were denominated to the senatroes because they were supposed to vote for the republic. but overr time the system became corrupt. Now, with the internet, we have not just the pwoer to vote electronically, but the power ot come together democratically on line wihtout fighting ove whose what (to see if one makes hte people, democacy, the base, replacing the point of necessity posed to the republic like cars) with a republic/mixed constitutional system in cotnol to check democacy’s tendency towads dictatory.

In a dialectic discussion, it would seem as if the vanguad is moving frm the republic, agaian to gobal infomational. THe civlization continues to build itself, so tht we can go on thinking questions like consciousness, and adding to the collective wall of science. Who knows what 24th and 25th centuy string technology will look like? Accorrding to fukuyama, njeither islam and religion nor communism are going to be dialectical victors. ANd yet the past continues to play out.

Although this would work just as well if instead of Rome we put [insert name of republic here], but note Cicero says “No new Rome.” Cicero’s Republic is always the first source on policy for all republics.

This excerpt from Cicero’s speech against agrarian law, which Cicero deems  the most important  of his speeches, carried such weight because Roman agrarian legislation was the reason for the fall of the republic.

He gave this speech upon the first day of his ascension to consulship, when the republic was at it’s height. He overturned the law, and defeated the legislation. Pompey would later overturn the republic to gain it in the Lex Julia.

VIII. In fact, if we look round to survey everything which is pleasant and acceptable to the people, we shall find that nothing is so popular as peace, and concord, and ease. You have given up to me a city made anxious with suspicion, in suspense from fear, harassed to death by your proposed laws, and assemblies, and seditions. You have inflamed the hopes of the wicked; you have filled the virtuous with alarms; you have banished good faith from the forum, and dignity from the republic.

[24] Amid all this commotion and agitation of minds and circumstances, when the voice and authority of the consul has suddenly, from amid such great darkness, dawned on the Roman people; when it has shown that nothing need be feared; that no regular army, no band of extempore ruffians, no colony, no sale of the revenues, no new of command, no reign of decemvirs, no new Rome or opposition seat of empire, will be allowed to exist while we are consuls; that the greatest tranquillity of peace and ease will be secured; then, no doubt, we shall have much reason to ear that this beautiful agrarian law of yours will appear popular.

[25] But when I have displayed the wickedness of your counsels, the dishonesty of your law, and the treachery which is planned by those popular tribunes of the people against the Roman people; then, I suppose, I shall have reason to fear that I shall not be allowed to appear in the assembly, for the purpose of opposing you; especially when I have determined and resolved so to conduct myself in my consulship, (and the duties of the consulship cannot be discharged with dignity and freedom, in any other manner,) as neither to desire any province, nor honour, nor dignity nor advantage nor anything whatever which can have any hindrance thrown in its way by any tribune of the people.

[26] The consul states, in full senate, on the calends of January, that if the present condition of the republic continues, and if no new event arises, on account of which he cannot with honour avoid it, he will not go to any province. By that means I shall be able, O conscript fathers, so to behave myself in this magistracy, as to be able to restrain any tribune of the people who is hostile to the republic,–to despise any one who is hostile to myself.

-Cicero, On the Agrarian Law

I was talking to a geometrician this weekend, and the conversation had interesting implications for our system. If you thought that our country’s education system was bad due only to lack of funding, think again. The problems began with the crusade on geometry in the 1920’s, 30’s, and 40’s. Likewise, the deeper problems within our system do not necessarily reach back to the inception of civilization itself with civilizations like Babylon.

History was not intended to go this way. Christianity was hijacked forty days after its inception, just as Neal Stephenson asserts, but it was hijacked from Rome.

St. Paul stole the ideas from Cicero, but although the form is familiar, the meat of them could not be more different. While Cicero, evokes “terror” of the flame and the sword besieging the republic, Paul pillaged his techniques not for the integrity of the republic but to the detriment of suckers.

Meanwhile, Augustine actually wrote his City of God right over Cicero’s Republic (note the similarity of titles: The usage is not accidental - Augustine was actually using Cicero’s geometrical margins for his own purposes without the knowledge of how to do it himself), a fact that wasn’t discovered until the 18th century, when the forgery was discovered and the work was reinstated, not as a piece of superstition or metaphysical rhetoric, but as a guiding force for our civilization.

Likewise, Descartes’ proof of god, for example, is very disappointing to read, at least for the enlightened eye. It’s all “there was a mountain, and triangles,” but the proof is not well-rounded, and in fact is just rhetoric. The current disdain for proofs of god that stemmed from that is disturbing.

Cicero was a big proponent of an educated populace until he despaired of the fickleness of the public towards the republic. However, in this country the government not only realized that education was the stepping stone to enlightenment, but they took away the primary keys. Geometry was the first to go.

The current basis for teaching math, including calculus, has no basis in how math is supposed to be taught. All enlightened concepts correspond to math, and any enlightened person can easily understand math and mathematical concepts almost instantaneously. That is because they work from the concept to the formula, rather than the other way around.

For over two millennia, Euclid was the de facto geometry teacher. Why? Because in his enlightened state he invented the methodologies, and thus was the perfect person to introduce them. Becoming enlightened is difficult enough when exposed to the proper educational and mind-opening processes. Moreover, much of our symbolic body is comprised of geomtetrical symbols (the pyramid and the eye, for example); geometry is fundamental to both the world and our minds, and no doubt this is why it was the first thing to go.

Not only can’t the lack of education continue, but in fact it is one of the key components to a proper democracy, as the Athenians well knew. Moreover, those who are not properly educated (lead out) are misled, and their entire persons go awry, and lack sustainability.

To have an entire country purposely mis-raised to be slaves bodes questionably for posterity, as an educated populace is one integral aspect of a true democracy. Moreover, an actual conspiracy against education on this scale cannot be tolerated, and perhaps the best way to oppose the trend of ignorance in this country is to begin again at the beginning, with the reinstatement of geometrical learning tools like Zome “toys,” multi-dimensional geometrical modeling pieces.