10-14-2017, 10:01 PM
The Roman Empire was a rotten order from its inception, and the dying Roman Republic was doomed from the dubious victory of the slave-holding elite in the Servile Wars. But the Empire in the West lasted five centuries after Julius Caesar took power.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.