New Insights

The politics of right-now have given me a tremendous insight into understanding Rome in the time of Augustus Caesar:  a Dictator rescues a society from itself.

As a society walks unerringly into tragedy after tragedy, its members become aware that they are no longer acting out scripts and scenarios of political wisdom and acuity,  but have rather become slaves to a vicious cycle of violence, failure, lack of empathy, and in their exasperation turn to "charisma" when persuasion by ancient maxim and law or applied force have failed.

Julius Caesar was assassinated, but Augustus was welcomed, because the politics of "many voices coming together" had failed.

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