tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post2249218723808981213..comments2024-03-29T09:14:34.373-04:00Comments on Borepatch: The Altar of Victory and Robert E. LeeBorepatchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05029434172945099693noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-63499939411112340262020-06-12T10:49:20.985-04:002020-06-12T10:49:20.985-04:00Antibubba: no.Antibubba: no.Borepatchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05029434172945099693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-66498436090725469572020-06-12T00:46:42.683-04:002020-06-12T00:46:42.683-04:00Keep the statue--in a museum. Protect it from tho...Keep the statue--in a museum. Protect it from those who wish to destroy history, but stop venerating it. Post-Nazi Germany provides an excellent example of how to do this.Antibubbahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10194983440707702769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-58313121323466752092020-06-11T10:57:12.799-04:002020-06-11T10:57:12.799-04:00I wonder if the Commonwealth will sell the statue ...I wonder if the Commonwealth will sell the statue to a private entity who can install it on private ground.HMS Defianthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10024721130102173694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-37354501579201143772020-06-11T08:42:46.667-04:002020-06-11T08:42:46.667-04:00The Fall of Rome indeed was shocking. It had been...The Fall of Rome indeed was shocking. It had been so dominant for so long that the existence of The Empire was as constant as the sun rising in the east every morning. But under a fair amount of propaganda and cognitive dissonance there are other things to be learned. <br /><br />The immediate successors to the Western Empire were generally speaking tolerant Gothic leaders who did a better job than the last shadow emperors. Rome did not actually die until a bit later. The eastern half of the Empire fought on and actually had a flicker of greatness under Justinian. They recaptured the Eternal City. <br /><br />But lacked the power to hold it. Siege after siege. The aqueducts that allowed a city to exist were toppled. It did not take long for there to be nothing left worth fighting over.<br /><br />Moral of the story? Whether you run the greatest city on earth or a collection of huts Job One is making sure it is not reduced to ashes or to a state of economic beggary that is less dramatic but just as certain. There can be no Higher Vision, nor even bread and circus distractions in a parched ghost town. Or a debris field.<br /><br />T.Wolter<br /><br />capcha ironically says I should click on fire hydrants. Capcha understands the world more than many of our leaders.Tacitushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17007086196578740689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-64557863833191163272020-06-10T19:41:13.627-04:002020-06-10T19:41:13.627-04:00"Finally in 408 AD it disappeared entirely.&q..."Finally in 408 AD it disappeared entirely." Interesting. Adds more historical context to Augustine's "City of God". A bit of obnoxious civil religion removed in 408. Rome sacked shortly thereafter. Augustine starts writing his book in 413 (so "the innernet" tells me) against the claim that it's "all the Christians' fault".<br /><br />Rome's fall was shocking. That world crumbled away and mutated into ours. Ours looks shaky.lee n. fieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01652025469454858807noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-17684312222669798682020-06-09T18:15:11.008-04:002020-06-09T18:15:11.008-04:00The contemporary Altar of Peace has been reassembl...The contemporary Altar of Peace has been reassembled from the zillion pieces it had fallen into after being built on a flood prone area on the northern edge of Rome (Campus Marti, actually the Field of Mars). It is really rather ugly, so perhaps the Altar of Victory was also something of a ugly duckling. The Romans were never quite as good at this stuff as the Greeks.<br /><br />T.WolterTacitushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17007086196578740689noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-30844488330179432422020-06-09T16:57:31.234-04:002020-06-09T16:57:31.234-04:00The recent transplants to Virginia from Northern s...The recent transplants to Virginia from Northern states have no cultural connection to Virginia's past and have stewed for at least a generation in anti-Southern sentiment, to be polite. Foreign immigrants have even less and are happy to eliminate America's past to show thier current bona fides to TPTB. Fredrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08574586401709392348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-67112589503722760162020-06-09T16:31:32.331-04:002020-06-09T16:31:32.331-04:00This is going to be interesting...This is going to be interesting...Old NFOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16404197287935017147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6322916946732811685.post-18712045194475876512020-06-09T12:22:28.391-04:002020-06-09T12:22:28.391-04:00The article says that the Governor is confident in...The article says that the Governor is confident in his ability to violate the agreement because reasons. So any agreement between the government and the people is not worth the paper it is written on. Important lesson.Divemedichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14583007051962299381noreply@blogger.com