Counter-Currents
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In the first century AD, during the ascendancy of the Roman Empire, a writer named Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus was born in what would nowadays be Algeria. Known to posterity as Suetonius, he wrote on various, mostly antiquarian subjects, as did all the Roman literary class.
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Our great modern sociological minds are full of clever-sounding nonsense. It’s men like Herodotus, Thucydides, Polybius, Seutonius, and Tacitus that tell us the truth about how things work. (Machiavelli is a vastly enlightening commentator, and the evolutionary psychologist Kevin MacDonald added a highly important historical force that we need to be aware of.)
Our moral teachers are streaming, television, and Hollywood movies made by moral saints like Harvey Weinstein and Woody Allen. Their sermons are the likes of Match Point. I don’t think someone who grew up on Plutarch’s Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans would have been worse off for ethical instruction than we are.
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