James Romm
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first heard May 2026
last heard 3 Jun
James Romm’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's right.
And when do things get so messy that you have to extricate yourself?
Seneca tried to extricate himself, but failed.
Yes.
And Plato succeeded, but then had to answer all kinds of questions about what went wrong, why did he bail, and the disaster that he left behind became much worse after his departure.
So, yeah, things got very sticky.
Right.
Exactly.
The philosopher has ideal notions of what politics is about as a republic.
I mean, the republic enshrines those ideals in the highest way.
And then...
when you hit the ground, hit the ground splattering, as it were, things don't work out so neatly.
Yeah.
Nero started off on a relatively good path.
The first five years of his reign were later referred to as the Quinquennium Neronis, the best time of the Roman Empire.
Yeah.
It wasn't until he became a 20 or he approached his 20s and had the actually, no, he was well into his 20s after five years and more gumption, more autonomy and took the reins into his own hands more.
And then things started to really crash.
In his case, very much so.
The freedom to do anything, to have whatever pleasures he wanted, to kill his mother or whoever else he wanted, have the Praetorian Guard at his beck and call, those would drive many human beings into delusions and insanity.
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