Lawrence Sammons II

Macedon is calling the shots on that, right? Eventually the Romans are going to call the shots on that. So that's what changes. But internally, they still had elections and they still had officers, right? They still played democracy, we could call it. That's probably unfair to call it playing.

Macedon is calling the shots on that, right? Eventually the Romans are going to call the shots on that. So that's what changes. But internally, they still had elections and they still had officers, right? They still played democracy, we could call it. That's probably unfair to call it playing.

Macedon is calling the shots on that, right? Eventually the Romans are going to call the shots on that. So that's what changes. But internally, they still had elections and they still had officers, right? They still played democracy, we could call it. That's probably unfair to call it playing.

But they had lost that thing that had defined the Greek city-state before, which is being the absolute sovereign authority over yourself. You make your own laws. You make your own foreign policy. You decide whether you're going to go to war or not. Nobody else is going to tell you whether you're going to do that.

But they had lost that thing that had defined the Greek city-state before, which is being the absolute sovereign authority over yourself. You make your own laws. You make your own foreign policy. You decide whether you're going to go to war or not. Nobody else is going to tell you whether you're going to do that.

But they had lost that thing that had defined the Greek city-state before, which is being the absolute sovereign authority over yourself. You make your own laws. You make your own foreign policy. You decide whether you're going to go to war or not. Nobody else is going to tell you whether you're going to do that.

And see, it sounded to me like you were describing the world we live in now. A place where you get to vote on some stuff. Yeah. I mean, I've had this really dark thought over the last few years. Maybe I have too many of them, but

And see, it sounded to me like you were describing the world we live in now. A place where you get to vote on some stuff. Yeah. I mean, I've had this really dark thought over the last few years. Maybe I have too many of them, but

And see, it sounded to me like you were describing the world we live in now. A place where you get to vote on some stuff. Yeah. I mean, I've had this really dark thought over the last few years. Maybe I have too many of them, but

Aristotle says man is suited to live a life in the polis and that the heavy responsibilities of citizenship is the best way for a human being and the ideal way for a human being to spend his public life. Maybe I still believe that that is true. I'm an ideal world, but it just seems to me that human beings in the end find that too burdensome and that they retreat.

Aristotle says man is suited to live a life in the polis and that the heavy responsibilities of citizenship is the best way for a human being and the ideal way for a human being to spend his public life. Maybe I still believe that that is true. I'm an ideal world, but it just seems to me that human beings in the end find that too burdensome and that they retreat.

Aristotle says man is suited to live a life in the polis and that the heavy responsibilities of citizenship is the best way for a human being and the ideal way for a human being to spend his public life. Maybe I still believe that that is true. I'm an ideal world, but it just seems to me that human beings in the end find that too burdensome and that they retreat.

look in the late 80s and early 90s, I realized that I had to stop basically watching the news.

look in the late 80s and early 90s, I realized that I had to stop basically watching the news.

look in the late 80s and early 90s, I realized that I had to stop basically watching the news.

And I had to, you know, retreat to some degree into Thucydides and these other authors. But the problem is that you keep seeing the same things in those authors that you see around you. So my copy of Thucydides has in the margins, it'll have, you know, November 1992 written in the margins or something, you know, where I go, this reminded me of something.

And I had to, you know, retreat to some degree into Thucydides and these other authors. But the problem is that you keep seeing the same things in those authors that you see around you. So my copy of Thucydides has in the margins, it'll have, you know, November 1992 written in the margins or something, you know, where I go, this reminded me of something.

And I had to, you know, retreat to some degree into Thucydides and these other authors. But the problem is that you keep seeing the same things in those authors that you see around you. So my copy of Thucydides has in the margins, it'll have, you know, November 1992 written in the margins or something, you know, where I go, this reminded me of something.

It's not that I don't follow the news at all anymore, but I realized I just couldn't become someone who was in that game of what's the next winning move in this political sport.

It's not that I don't follow the news at all anymore, but I realized I just couldn't become someone who was in that game of what's the next winning move in this political sport.