Dwarkesh Patel

They're speaking ancient Greek.

And you say, I thought I didn't understand that language, but ancient Greek is lost.

We don't have...

ancient Greek.

And he says, yes, you know, we have lots of ancient Greek here.

And he said, and you say, and also we don't have the works of Plato.

There are also lots.

Oh, we have lots of Plato here.

Look, here's my grandson, Lorenzo.

He's just written a poem in ancient Greek about the three parts of the soul.

Would you like to hear him recite it?

And now there's a 10-year-old boy reciting a poem that you in ancient Greek about the three parts of the soul.

And you're like, where am I?

None of this is possible.

None of this has existed for a thousand years.

That's the moment that Cosa and de' Medici turns to and said, would you like to make an alliance with Florence?

And you can say no.

You can say no.

My king is going to come over the Alps with his enormous army and we're going to descend upon this city and we're going to sack it and everyone's going to let us because it has no friends because it doesn't have any nobility so it can't marry anybody so it has no meaningful allies.

And also it's in the middle of this Guelph-Gibley feud so all of its neighbors hate it so they're just going to let it burn.